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CONTENTS. 



PAGE 

Preface 7 

/. — The Location of Three Heavens 13 

2. — What the Bible Tells Us About the Location of 

Hell 29 

j. — The First Coming of Christ to Make a Sacrifice 

for Sin 81 

^.—Christ's Second Coming; to be a King and the Prince 

of Peace 93 

j-. — Christ's Third Coming; to be the Lion of the Tribe 

of Judah . 132 

6, — A Review of the Subjects in Verse 173 



PREFACE. 



We are taught in the Word of God that Jesus 
when he was on the earth gave men more credit for 
believing what he said, and what the prophets had 
told them, than he did for anything they did. If we 
love our Redeemer for what he has done for us, we 
should believe all he has told us in his Word. When 
Jesus told the centurion he would heal his servant, 
and the centurion told him to " Speak the word only, 
and my servant shall be healed," Jesus said, "I have 
not found so great faith, no, not in Israel." (Matt. 8 : 
10.) Then Jesus said, " As thou hast believed, so be 
it done unto thee." In view of this, we may ask the 
question, Would not Christ and the Holy Spirit 
make the preaching of his gospel more successful 
than it is if the preachers would believe, and explain 
to the people more of the prophetic or revealed part 
of the Bible? 

All the prophets have said about the future history 
of the world is as plain as what they have said about 
its past history. And the literal fulfillment of 
prophecy in the past should prove to us that all the 
prophets have said as to what will be done on the 
earth will be fulfilled in the same way. 

We obey the Lord if we believe his words, and 

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8 PREFACE. 

the evil spirit if we do not believe what the Lord has 
revealed to us. Satan blinded men, and they did not 
believe the preaching of Noah, and the same spirit 
prevented men from believing on Christ, and he will 
while the Lord permits him to do it, and while men 
are fools enough to be deceived by him, and refuse 
to believe what the Lord has told them, and will not 
accept the sacrifice Christ has made for sin. The 
Jews offer no sacrifice, and will not believe on the 
one Christ has made for them. That spirit is called 
"the god of this world," and he is controlling all 
men to a greater or less extent, and he will not let 
men believe that the Lord will do what he has told us 
he will do in the future. Do we believe more prophecy 
than the Jews do ? Christ has well said, " O fools-and 
slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have 
spoken." (Luke 24 : 25.) " Professing themselves to 
be wise, they became fools." (Rom. 1 : 22.) "The 
lion hath roared: who will not fear ? The Lord God 
hath spoken: who can but prophesy ?" (Amos 3 : 8.) 
And who is man that he should refuse to believe 
the Lord's prophets ? Suppose a friend told us he 
would do four things. If we told him we believe he 
would do two, and not the other two things he had 
promised to do, what credit would that friend give 
us for believing his word ? Our faith in the Word of 
God should include all he has promised to do. We ■ 
will never understand the Bible until we are willing 
to believe it. 

The prophets had told the Jews how long they 



PREFACE. 9 

would be in Egypt and in Babylon. Christ told 
them "the temple would be thrown down" (Matt. 
24 : 2), and that would end the Jewish sacrifice. 
Then he said, " Blindness, in part, is happened to 
Israel till the fullness of the Gentiles comes in." (Rom. 
1 1 : 25.) They are blind to what is said about Christ's 
first coming, and we are blind to all that has been 
said about his second coming. The Jews and Gen- 
tiles should correct this mistake. Faith is the win- 
dow that will let in the light, or the Holy Spirit, to 
drive out the darkness so that we can see, hear, and 
understand the truth. I ask the reader to excuse me 
for calling the devil and his home by the old names, 
for I do not think they deserve new ones, and the 
Lord has not changed them. 

I think this book will instruct, and do the common 
people good. For " the common people heard Christ 
gladly." (Mark 12 : 37.) But "the chief priests and 
elders sought false witness against Jesus to put him 
to death." (Matt. 26 : 59.) It is as hard a task in our 
day as it was in the days of Christ to change the 
views of men whose minds have been molded in our 
theological schools. 

That class of men may oppose this work; they will 
do it as Peter said the " Jews and their rulers did, 
through ignorance." (Acts 3 : 17.) It is the same 
evil spirit that darkens the mind now, and keeps out 
the light of the Holy Spirit. "He that believeth 
and is baptized shall be saved." (Mark 16 : 16.) Who 
has told us where to stop believing the Word of God ? 



10 PREFACE. 

Many, in our day, who think they believe and obey 
enough of God's Word to take them to heaven, and 
say that is all they want, may, like the Jews, be mis- 
taken. We have worldly wise men who think they 
can remove their burdens, or free themselves from 
sin, by what they call good works. Paul said, 
" Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and 
though I give my body to be burned, and have not 
charity, it profiteth me nothing." (i Cor. 13:3.) That 
charity is the spirit of Christ. " If any man have not 
the spirit of Christ, he is none of his." (Rom. 8 : 9.) 
We should ask ourselves the question, Does our 
knowledge of the Bible and our willingness to believe 
and obey the commands prove to us that we have the 
spirit of Christ ? If the Holy Spirit has revealed to 
me the truths presented in this book as recorded in 
the Bible, and given me light to see, and wisdom to 
understand, believe, and explain them, and has made 
me believe it is my duty to publish them to all 
men, the Holy Spirit will never persuade men not to 
believe what is revealed, and the evil spirit could 
have no interest in this work. I will say to all, Do not 
condemn this book until you know by what author- 
ity you do it. Have we a right to say that what the 
Lord has revealed should not be proclaimed to all 
men? Peter wanted to take some things from the 
word of the Lord, and Christ told him it was Satan 
that wanted that done; and the evil spirit will con- 
demn this book. For that spirit persuaded men to 
reject the preaching of Christ at his first coming. 



PREFACE. 1 1 

And some who claim to be preachers and teachers of 
God's truth may help him in his work to blind men 
on this subject. I will do my work. The promise is 
to the faithful; while we have no power to make our 
work successful, the spirit will instruct if men are 
willing to be instructed. We can know the spirit by 
its fruit. 

1890. Jacob V. Little. 



THE LOCATION OF THREE HEAVENS. 



Let us see what the Bible tells us about the un- 
bounded space it calls heaven. " In the beginning 
God created the heaven and the earth." (Gen. I : I.) 

That part of heaven is the air God created around 
the earth. It moves with the earth in its rapid flight 
in space, and without it this world would be a barren 
waste, and life on earth would end. It belongs to 
this earth, and is our first heave-up, or heaven. " And 
God made two great lights ; the greater light to rule 
the day, and the lesser light to rule the night ; he 
made the stars also. And God set them in the fir- 
mament of heaven to give light upon the earth." 
(Gen. i : 16, 17.) The sun gives light on the earth 
now, and it must move with it in space, or we could 
see the change. From this we learn God created 
the air and called it heaven. He does not say he 
made the second heaven, in which he created the 
sun, moon, and stars; and we may be safe in saying 
that is empty space, in which there is nothing creat- 
ed that could interfere with the rapid flight of the 
earth and all other planets which revolve around the 
sun, the centre of this solar system. That part of 
space would be the second heave-up from the earth, 

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14 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

and we must go beyond that to find the space the 
Bible calls the third heaven, paradise, and the present 
seat of Christ's kingdom. And the third heaven may 
be some creation in that part of space around this 
system of planets, that is of as much use to it as the 
air is to the earth. The first heaven, or air, at the 
third coming of Christ will burn, or be changed to a 
new heaven that will not need the light of the sun. 
For the glory of the Lord will give it light. But the 
sun will remain in the centre of this system. 

"The heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, 
and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ; never- 
theless we, according to his promise, look for a new 
heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteous- 
ness. " (2 Pet. 3:13.) 

" And I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for 
the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, 
and there was no more sea." (Rev. 21:1.) We learn 
from this that the first heaven, and not the second, 
will burn or be changed from what it is to a new 
heaven after the last resurrection. 

Paul said he " was caught up to the third heaven, 
whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell : 
God knoweth. How that he was caught up into par- 
adise, and heard unspeakable words which it is not 
lawful for a man to utter." (2 Cor. 12 : 2-4.) 

We learn from this that Paul must have left his 
earthly body, and was then in paradise. He had a 
body which he did not know from his earthly body, 
and heard what was said by those in heaven, but he 



THE LOCATION OF THREE HEAVENS. 1 5 

had no right to tell his fellow-men what he had 
learned about heaven. 

Jesus said, " He descended first into the lower 
parts of the earth. And he is the same also that 
ascended up far above all heavens." (Eph. 4 : 9, 10.) 

" For Christ is entered into heaven itself, now to 
appear in the presence of God for us." (Heb. 9 : 24.) 
"And suddenly there was with the angels a multi- 
tude of the heavenly host." (Luke 2:13.) They 
came to the earth to tell men that the Lamb of God 
had come, and that "Christ is a high priest, made 
higher than the heavens. " (Heb. 7 : 26) His Father's 
throne is higher than the third heaven, which is 
around this system of worlds. 

"And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he 
was parted from them and carried up into heaven." 
(Luke 24 : 51.) From this we learn there is a place 
in space, separate from the earth and all planets in 
this system, called the third heaven. It is the home 
of Christ, the angels and the redeemed, and they 
have been, and are, in communication with men who 
live on the earth. 

One of the malefactors who was crucified with Jesus 
said to him, " Lord, remember me when thou comest 
into thy kingdom. And Jesus said unto him, Verily I 
say unto thee, To-day shalt thou be with me in para- 
dise " (Luke 23 : 42, 43) ; or into the third heaven. 
Jesus said, " In my Father's house are many man- 
sions; if it were not so, I would have told you ; I go 
to prepare a place for you." (John 14: 2.) I think these 



l6 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

mansions are spiritual bodies that will be given to all 
the redeemed when they go to heaven, and does not 
refer to heaven as a place that will have mansions or 
houses like unto those we have on earth. " Jesus 
said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days 
I will raise it up. He spake of the temple of his 
body." (John 2 : 19-21.) " Ye are God's building." 
(1 Cor. 3 : 9.) " Ye are the temple of God, and the 
spirit of God dwelleth in you. If any man defile the 
temple of God, him shall God destroy, for the tem- 
ple of God is holy, which temple ye are." (i Cor. 3 : 
16, 17.) The above refers to our earthly body. And 
again : "For we know that if our earthly house of this 
tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of 
God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the 
heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring 
to be clothed upon with our house which is in heav- 
en." (2 Cor. 5 : 1, 2.) The above quotation refers to 
a spiritual body. If our earthly body is a building 
or temple, our spiritual body could be called a man- 
sion that we could occupy forever in heaven. Angels 
have come to the earth in spiritual bodies, and they 
could not be seen by men, and they have come in 
what appeared to be a human body. The Lord can 
change them in a second from one to the other. 

" By the word of the Lord were the heavens 
made." (Psa. 33 : 6.) This speaks of more than one 
heaven that the Lord made, and must refer to the 
third heaven, for He has not told us he created the 
second heaven, or empty space, for nothing is 



THE LOCATION OF THREE HEAVENS. \J 

created in it. " Behold, the heaven and the heaven 
of heavens is the Lord's." (Deut. 10 : 14.) " Is not 
God in the height of heaven ? and behold the height 
of the stars, how high they are." (Job 22 : 12.) Many 
of them are above our third heaven. " Thick clouds 
are a covering for him; and he walketh in the circuit 
of heaven." (Job 22 : 14.) All heavens are in a cir- 
cuit, and the third heaven is around this solar sys- 
tem. " The sun, moon, and stars are called the 
host of heaven " — are in the second heaven. (Deut. 
17 : 2.) Some do not want to know in this life any- 
thing about the future state or our future home. The 
Creator has ordered the Bible written to instruct us 
in this life. It will be of no use to us in a future 
state. And all he has told us about heaven and the 
home of the lost is of interest to us, to induce us to 
prepare for the one and escape from the other. 
Heaven, and the company we expect to meet in 
heaven, should attract us, and it should be of interest 
to us to know all the Lord has said about it. If we 
read, believe, and want to understand what is said 
about heaven in the Bible, we can do so. 

We learn from the Bible that the home of the 
angels and the redeemed is not on this earth, or in 
the air, or first heaven, which is all around the earth. 
And their home could not be in empty space called 
the second heaven, for that is space prepared for the 
sun, and the planets which revolve around it. But 
in the third heaven God could create something in 
space around this solar system that would supply 



1 8 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

all the wants of his angels, and the redeemed who 
are in heaven. It would be the first space in this 
system that would be suitable for Christ's kingdom. 
And heaven must be in this system, and move with 
it in space, or we would soon leave it. 

We will see what the astronomers tell us about 
the movement of the heavenly bodies; that will 
help us understand what the Bible tells us about 
heaven, its location, and its movement in space. 
They prove to us that they know the movement 
and the rate of movement of all the planets in this 
solar system, and also the movement of the system. 
They prove it by telling when a planet will pass be- 
tween the sun and the earth. They also tell us 
when the eclipse will occur, and on what part of the 
earth it will be visible, and the minute it will come 
on and pass off; and they tell us what part of the 
sun it will shade, and when there will be an eclipse 
of the moon. And when a comet comes in sight of 
the earth, they tell us its rate of movement, and tell 
us when it will come in sight of the earth again, if 
it takes a hundred years or more to complete the 
circuit. If we believe what is revealed to us in the 
Bible, and all that is explained and proved to us by 
the astronomers about unbounded space around us, 
we need not worship an " unknown God," or go to an 
unknown heaven, or say we do not know where it is. 

The astronomers tell us they can see stars so 
far off in space that it would take light, moving at 
the rate of 185,000 miles in a second, 60,000 years to 



THE LOCATION OF THREE HEAVENS. 19 

reach us. And if they could be taken from this earth 
to that star they could see in the same direction a 
firmament no less rich and splendid than that which 
they beheld from this earth. They tell us these 
worlds are divided into systems, the members of 
which are bound together by mutual attraction. 
Each system has a central sun around which the 
other members, called planets, revolve. While this 
revolution is going on, the suns themselves, with 
their respective planets, move about a common fixed 
central point. 

The earth we inhabit is a planet belonging to what 
is known as the solar system, of which the sun is the 
centre. The diameter of the sun is 852,000 miles. 
Placed where the earth is, it would fill the whole 
orbit of the moon, and extend 180,000 miles beyond 
it in all directions. 

The sun turns on its axis from west to east; its 
revolution is performed in about twenty-five days 
and eight hours. And the sun, attended by its planets, 
moves in space, at the rate of eight miles every 
second, in a circular path around a centre, far off in 
the fields of space; so vast is this path that it will 
take the sun and the planets which revolve around 
it, 18,200,000 years to get once completely around 
that circle. Then the earth is moving with the sun 
eight miles every second. The first and second 
heaven is moving with it. Is this not proof that the 
third heaven must be all around this solar system, 
and is moving with it in space the same as the first 



20 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

heaven is moving with the earth around the sun ? 
We know we must have the air around the earth so 
we do not see it move or receive any harm by the 
earth's rapid movement in space. So I would think 
that the solar system must have something created 
all around it, called a third heaven, to protect it, and 
it is a part of the system and will move with it in 
space forever; and as we have a number of planets 
revolving around our sun, so we may suppose there 
are other suns, with the planets that attend them, fol- 
lowing us in the same never-ending path in space. 
The North Star must be a sun for one of those sys- 
tems, and if it is following us at the same rate of 
speed, that would account for its remaining in. the 
same position when viewed from this earth, making 
a safe and never-changing guide for all who live on 
this earth. 

If all created matter in space is moving, then para- 
dise, or Christ's kingdom, would not remain in one 
place. And if it was not moving in space with the 
earth, that part of heaven and earth would, from 
the creation of man to this time, be a long way apart. 
And the angels could not ascend and descend from 
heaven to earth, as we are told they do and have 
been doing from the creation of man to the present 
time, and will do it forever. And the air is mov- 
ing with the earth around the sun, at the rate of 
more than one thousand miles a minute. This is 
another proof that the third heaven is moving in 
space with this solar system. The earth is about 



THE LOCATION OF THREE HEAVENS. 21 

92,000,000 miles from the sun, and Neptune is 
about 2,746,271,000 miles from the sun, and revolves 
around it, and that is the farthest planet in this 
system from the sun. The Bible tells us it is down 
from heaven to the earth, and it would be down 
from heaven to the sun, for it is the centre of attrac- 
tion of this system. 

And we go up when we leave any planet that has 
power to attract, and when we go beyond the reach 
of that attraction we must go up to the third heaven. 
Jesus said, after he had been to the third heaven and 
returned to the earth, he had not ascended to his 
Father. It would not seem to be proper for the 
throne of God, the Father, the creator and controller 
of all created matter in unbounded space, to be in 
this system of worlds, or in any of the unknown 
number of systems, like this, that are moving with it 
in space. 

His throne is above all heavens, or the three 
heavens spoken of in this system and we are told, 
" It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth." 
(Isa. 40 : 22.) From this we learn that all planets 
are round, and all heavens are circles around planets, 
and around systems of planets. And it takes some 
planets in this system longer to go around the sun 
than it does others, because they are farther from it. 
And there must be systems, with suns and planets 
attending them, moving around the same field of 
space we are. Some may be nearer to what we may 
call the centre of that part of space, and many sys- 



22 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

terns may be moving around the same part of space 
farther from the centre; as the path of the planet 
Neptune in this system is 12,654,271,000 miles far- 
ther from the sun, or farther from the centre of this 
system than our earth is. And if the third heaven 
is around the solar system, there may be a heaven, 
or something created in empty space, around all 
systems, or all created matter moving in space. We 
are told that the " Lord alone hast made heaven, 
the heaven of heavens." (Neh. 11 : 6.) 

Some may think this thought takes us so far off in 
space it is of no interest to us. Our astronomers 
do not think so, for they are doing all they can 
to increase their knowledge of all created matter, 
and all space around us. It is all right for us to 
learn all we can about the wonderful works of the 
Creator, and it is our duty to know, and believe, all 
he has revealed to us in his Word about our present 
and our future home, and we should know about the 
evil spirit who has and will try to hide the truth 
from us, for he knows we are to be judged by the 
Word of God. The third heaven would be space that 
would not be disturbed by planets revolving in it, 
and could be beyond the reach of the attraction of 
any of the planets in this system. 

No human being could live if they were forced 
through the air as fast as the earth is moving around 
the sun, or as fast as this system of planets is mov- 
ing in space. This is another proof that the space 
between the sun and the third heaven has nothing 



THE LOCATION OF THREE HEAVENS. 23 

created in it except the sun and planets; and the 
unbounded fields of space in which this and other 
systems are moving is the same. If the sun could, 
by the law of attraction, hold the farthest planet 
from it in its place, as it revolves around it, its power 
of attraction would be strong enough to draw some 
of the planets to the sun, so I think there is some- 
thing created in the third heaven around this system 
of planets to keep them in their proper place; so the 
flight of the system does not interfere with the 
planets revolving around the sun. Then the third 
heaven would be united to this system, as the air is 
to the earth. 

"And he dreamed, and behold, a ladder set up 
on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; 
and behold the angels of God ascending and de- 
scending on it." (Gen. 28 : 12.) From this we learn 
that heaven is above the earth, and it must be all 
around it or it could not be above it all the time, 
and the angels could not be coming down from 
heaven and return up to heaven, if it was not united 
to and moving with this solar system. 

"And when the Lord came to burn Sodom he 
said, I will go down now and see what they have 
done." (Gen. 18 : 21.) Down to the earth from the 
third heaven, and then it would be down to the sun, 
for that is in the centre of this solar system, and the 
end of " down " in this system. 

All the planets in this system have power to at- 
tract to their centres, and that is the end of down to 



24 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

each planet; and it is the earth's power to attract to 
its centre that which holds the air to it and keeps it 
moving in space with it. The Bible and our astrono- 
mers agree as to what is meant by the words " up " 
and " down," and I think all men should understand 
the meaning of those words and agree on that point. 
And when we think of heaven w T e should remem- 
ber that a spiritual body is not like our earthly body. 
Let us see what the Bible tells us about the angels 
who have come to the earth and appeared to men 
in a spiritual body. That will help us understand 
what kind of a place heaven should be, for them to 
enjoy it. " When Jesus was transfigured before 
them, his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment 
was white as the light." (Matt. 17 : 2.) "And, be- 
hold, there was a great earthquake; for the angel 
of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and 
rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it. 
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment 
white as snow." (Matt. 28 : 2, 3.) " The Lord 
opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of 
the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn 
in his hand." (Num. 22 : 31.) The angel had been 
before Balaam some time and he could not see him; 
this proves that a spiritual body could stand before 
us and we could not see it. " And Elisha prayed, 
and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he 
may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the 
young man and he saw, and behold! the mountain 
was full of horses and chariots of fire round about 



THE LOCATION OF THREE HEAVENS. 2$ 

Elisha." (2 Kings 6 : 17.) When Jesus appeared 
to Saul, who was Paul, " he saw a light from 
heaven." (Acts 9 : 3.) That light was Jesus, and he 
spoke to Sa^al. 

And as the Lord can change a natural body to a 
spiritual body, so he can change a spiritual body to 
what appears to be a natural body. 

For Jesus and his angels appeared to men on the 
earth in a body that looked like a human body. It 
was in the form of men that the Lord and his two 
angels appeared to Abraham. (Gen. 18 : 2.) 

And angels have often appeared on the earth in 
the form of men. But the spiritual body is the body 
they have in heaven. And that spiritual body could 
not be confined. It can pass through space called 
heaven, or through the rock-bound walls of earth. 
The third heaven could be made a suitable home for 
the angels and the redeemed, as the air is for the 
human body to sustain life. Some may say the an- 
gels could live on some of the planets in this solar 
system. They could; but the Lord has not called 
any of the planets heaven. And he has told us 
there is a heaven, and he calls it the third heaven, 
paradise, and Christ's kingdom. It is the home of 
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And Christ has told 
us they are alive in heaven, and not dead; for God 
is the God of the living and not of the dead. For 
the Lord created man a living soul, and his spirit 
will never die. And if all the redeemed in the past, 
and all in the future to the end of time, go to the 



26 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

third heaven and return to the earth with the Son of 
God at his last coming, the third heaven they live in 
must have moved in space with this system of 
planets, or it would not be above the earth, as the 
Bible tells us it is; and if it did not move it would 
be a long way from the earth now, and farther yet 
at the end of time. I do not see what reason we can 
give for refusing to believe what the Bible tells us 
about the location of the third heaven. 

We can find no place more suitable for Christ's 
kingdom, for he is preparing his subjects on earth, 
for heaven, and his kingdom should be above all 
created matter in this system of planets. 

And the throne of God, the Father, should be 
above all systems he has created, and may be in 
that part of space, or heaven, around which all the 
systems of planets, or all he has created, are revolv- 
ing, and will continue to revolve in perfect order for 
all eternity, controlled by the unbounded power of 
the God who created them in unbounded space. 

The Creator has given men his spirit to give them 
wisdom to write the Bible ; and he will give us his 
spirit, which will give us wisdom enough to under- 
stand it, if we will ask him for it and believe he will 
give it. In that way we honor him, and then he has 
promised to honor us and take us to his home. 
" Fear not, little flock ; for it is your father's good 
pleasure to give you the kingdom." (Luke 12 : 32.) 
This is told us by his only begotten and well-be- 
loved Son, in whom he was well pleased, and he has 



THE LOCATION OF THREE HEAVENS. 2? 

told us to hear him, and that son has given himself a 
ransom for us. Men do not understand the Bible, 
for they allow the devil to blind them, and they be- 
lieve what men tell them, and do not believe what 
the Lord has told them in his Word about heaven. 
Men believe there is a creator, and they believe he 
has a home somewhere up in space he calls heaven. 
They believe this because they find it in the Bible, 
and they believe the God of heaven is the author of 
the Bible. Then why not believe all that the Bible 
has told us about his home in heaven ? He calls all 
space heaven, and then divides it into three heavens, 
and the third heaven up from the earth he calls para- 
dise, and Christ's kingdom ; and Christ tells us his 
Father's throne is above that, or above all heavens, 
meaning the three heavens that must belong to this 
system of worlds. Why not believe that ? for Christ 
must know where heaven is ; and he has not called 
any of the planets heaven. Then where else could 
Christ's kingdom be in this system ? for the system 
and all the planets in it are moving in perfect order, 
and they are moving around a circle. And the Lord 
calls the heavens he has created a circle, and as 
the first heaven is a circle around the earth, the third 
heaven must be a circle around this system of plan- 
ets moving in space, with the sun for its centre. 
Then heaven, earth, and hell must move with it in 
space. 

If we should change the meaning of what men tell 
us, as we do what the Lord has told us about the 



28 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

location of heaven and hell, and the second coming 
of Christ, they would take it as an insult. It is not 
enough for us to think we believe and obey it all ; 
for the Jews thought they understood and believed 
all the prophets had told them as to the Messiah's 
coming. But they refused to believe on him because 
he did not accomplish all that was thus declared at 
his first coming, which he will fulfill at his second 
coming. And for that mistake the Lord has for- 
saken and scattered them. We should profit by the 
mistakes of those who have gone before us. Will 
the judge of all the earth say we are doing it ? He 
will not, if we are judged by the rule he has judged 
men by in the past. 

I know it is almost impossible for men to change 
their views as to the teachings of the Bible. The 
old ruts are inviting, and very few ever leave them. 
But that does not prove they are the right way; and 
men have found so many ways they think are right 
that it may be well for us to hold them up to the 
light given us in the Word of God, and, when we do 
it, make our opinions yield to the will and word of 
God. 



WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS US ABOUT 
THE LOCATION OF HELL. 



This subject will not interest many of our fallen 
race, for very few think they will ever go to hell; 
for nearly all men think they have, or will mark 
out, some way that will prepare them for heaven. 
But they do not learn this from the Bible; for Christ 
has told us we must "Strive to enter in at the 
strait gate; for many, I say unto you, will seek to 
enter in, and shall not be able." (Luke 13 : 24.) 

" For his spirit shall not always strive with man." 
(Gen. 6 : 3.) And he said, " Broad is the way that 
leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go 
in thereat. Because strait is the gate and narrow 
is the way which leadeth unto life, and few there be 
that find it." (Matt. 7:13, 14.) 

Christ speaks for one in hell, and tells us he 
wanted one sent from the dead to warn his five 
brothers, and tell them not to come to that place of 
torment, for he was tormented in that flame. And 
Christ told him, if they would not hear Moses and 
the prophets, they would not hear, though one rose 
from the dead. Christ would not misrepresent the 
condition of the lost. From this we learn that the 
devil will deceive many, and it is the duty of men 

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30 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

to know and believe all the Lord has revealed to us 
in his word on this subject. For if the Lord has 
thought it worth revealing, we have no right to say 
it is of no interest to us. For the word of the Lord 
is given to us to instruct us in this life, and it will be 
of no use to us in a future state, and we cannot return 
to warn our fellow-men. For then the harvest is past, 
and if our soul is not saved it will never be saved. 
Believing this, and knowing I am not responsible 
for what is in the Bible on this subject, and believ- 
ing I have been led by the Holy Spirit to investi- 
gate this part of God's Word, and have been taught 
to understand and believe it, I think I would not 
discharge a duty I owe to the author of the Bible 
and to my fellow-men if I did not give them the 
result of this investigation. "And he that hath my 
word, let him speak my word faithfully; what is 
the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord." (Jer. 23 : 28.) 
If we do not believe what the Bible tells us about 
the devil's home and its location, and teach men not 
to believe it, we are giving them chaff and not the 
wheat, or the truth of the Bible. The Lord has told 
us to u Say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely 
die; and if we do not warn the wicked man, he shall 
die in his iniquity; and the Lord will require his 
blood at our hand. But if we warn the wicked, 
and he turn not from his wickedness, he shall die in 
his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul." 
(Ezek. 3 : 18, 19.) 

I deem this a sufficient reason for calling atten- 



LOCATION OF HELL. 31 

tion to what the Lord has told us in His word about 
the future home of all who are not saved in heaven. 

If all who are living on the earth, but at the end 
of this life will be lost, could know it now, there 
would be more interested and willing to know what 
the author of the Bible has told us on this subject 
than there is. To prove this point, I will give you 
a few words the Son of God has said about it. 

" Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, 
shall enter into the kingdom of heaven: but he that 
doeth the will of my Father, which is in heaven. 
Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have 
we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name 
have cast out devils? and in thy name done many 
wonderful works? And then will I profess unto 
them, I never knew you; depart from me, ye that 
work iniquity." (Matt. 7 : 21, 22, 23.) 

" Ye did run well: who did hinder you, that ye 
should not obey the truth?" (Gal. 5 : 7.) Again, Paul 
said, "I keep under my body, and bring it into 
subjection; lest that by any means, when I have 
preached to others, I myself should be a castaway." 
(1 Cor. 9 : 27.) And again, Christ tells the Jews they 
have killed the prophets, and stoned them which 
are sent unto them; " how often would I have gath- 
ered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth 
her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!' 
(Matt. 23 : 37.) The Jews were all willing to be 
saved, and believed they would be taken to heaven, 
for they had Abraham for their Father, But they 



32 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

wanted to work out their salvation in their own way, 
and they did not want any one to oppose them, or 
to tell them they must go some other way to find 
heaven, and that they must trust in Christ, and give 
their personal obedience to Him, and not rely on 
what had been done by Abraham in his day. The 
devil is persuading many to take the same view of 
salvation in our day. They want to go to heaven 
on a road that is broad enough to let all men in, if 
they have a roll of self-righteousness under one arm 
and a roll of self-will under the other. Christ has 
told us if we would be his disciples " we must take 
up our cross," not ask some one else to do it, and 
then we must " follow him" — not follow Abraham, 
or some one who has no power to save us; for 
Christ is the way, and the only one who has the 
power to save us from the effects of the fall. I 
think this gives us reason to fear that many of our 
fellow-men will never be permitted to ascend to 
heaven. Then is it not our duty to tell them what 
is revealed to us in the Word of God about the home 
of the lost, as much as it is to tell them about 
heaven, the home of the saved? It is in Christ's gos- 
pel, and that must be preached to all nations. But 
some tell us that all the Bible has in it about the 
home of the lost is not to be understood by the 
meaning of the words used. I find nothing in the 
Bible to build a theory of that kind on. If those 
who believe that the Bible is a divine revelation 
take the liberty to change that part of God's Word, 



LOCATION OF HELL. 33 

how can we prevent those who do not want to be- 
lieve it as it is, if they want to change some other 
part of the Word of God? Satan does not want men 
to believe what the Bible has told us about his home. 
Is it the power the evil spirit has over men that has 
prevented them from believing what the Bible says 
as to the location and the description given of the 
devil's abode ? If that is the case, it is time his power 
and control over men as to that part of God's Word is 
broken, and that those who preach the gospel should 
be at liberty to declare the whole counsel of God. 

The Word of God tells that the heavens are above 
and around the earth, and Satan's place is down from 
heaven to the earth, and then down below, or under 
the earth we live on, and that it is in a lake of fire 
(and we have a lake of fire in the earth). Some may 
say this could not be. " Is anything too hard for the 
Lord ? " He protected men in a furnace of fire, and 
in the lions' den; and we do not know what the soul 
or spirit of man can endure, for we have never seen 
it, but the Creator of all things has seen it. Some 
may refuse to believe it because it has been con- 
cealed so long from men who have believed the Bible ; 
that does not prove it is not true if it is in the Bible. 
I will, therefore, as a duty try to explain what I un- 
derstand is revealed in the Word of God about the 
location and the description given us of the place he 
has prepared for the residence of the devil and his 
angels, and all who are not saved from the wrath to 
come — or those who are not God's children. 



34 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AXD HELL. 

I wish to say to all who read this book. If you want 
to understand God's Word, you must believe what 
you find in it. The Jews refused to believe what the 
prophets told them, and what Christ told them, but 
that did not change the truths of revelation; and if 
we refuse to believe what is taught us in the Word of 
God on this subject, that will not change the location 
of the devil's home, or take men to heaven. 

If the Creator has thought best to reveal so much 
to us on this subject, is it wisdom for men who at- 
tempt to explain the Bible to their fellow-men to 
tell them not to believe it ? I think it is not. " For 
this truth and prophecy came not in old time by the 
will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were 
moved by the Holy Ghost." (2 Pet. I : 21.) If we 
believe what the Bible has told us about the third 
heaven surrounding this system of worlds, with the 
sun for its centre and lowest point, that will help us 
to understand what the Lord means when he speaks 
of coming down from heaven to the earth, and from 
the earth down into hell. And the Bible has been 
written to instruct men who live on the earth; and 
the Word of God tells us we must go down, not up, 
or away from this earth, to find the home he has pre- 
pared for the devil. All that is said on this subject 
may be classed with prophecy, and we are told that 
prophecy has no private interpretation; and we should 
be guided by the meaning of the words used by the 
prophets to convey truth to us on this subject. Christ 
said he l4 beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven,' 5 



LOCATION OF HELL. 35 

(Luke 10 : 18.) We understand that we go down 
when we fall, and the devil must have come down to 
the earth when he was driven from heaven. 

The first account we have of his work on the earth 
was in the Garden of Eden. When he told Eve to 
eat the forbidden fruit, and said to her, "Ye shall 
not surely die" (Gen. 3:4); that was a lie and he 
has been deceiving men in the same way from that 
time to this. We find him on the earth when man 
was created; and we can prove by his works with 
men that he and his angels have been on the earth 
from that time to the present, and we are told that 
an angel will come down from heaven to the earth, 
to chain and shut up the devil and Satan, and seal 
up the prison for a thousand years, so he cannot de- 
ceive the nations any more till the thousand years 
are ended; and at the end of that time the devil will 
be loosed from his prison, and the Lord will permit 
him to deceive men who will live on the earth then. 
The angel came to the earth, the devil's home, to 
confine him in prison, he does not say he took 
him to some other planet to confine him, and this 
prison, called a bottomless pit, could not be in open 
space, called heaven, and when he is loosed from his 
prison to deceive men there is nothing said about 
bringing him to the earth; but we are told that he is 
on the earth and men engage in war; the spear 
which had been turned to a pruning-hook is then 
made into a spear, and is used to kill men; this is 
Satan's work. When the devil and all his, at the end 



36 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

of the age of man, are to be confined for ever in a lake 
of fire, there is nothing said then, about taking him 
and the lost of Adam's race from the earth. " And 
if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast 
them down to hell, and delivered them into chains 
of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment." (2 Pet. 
2 : 4.) They were cast down to the earth, and will 
be kept here till the end of the race of Adam; and 
then the devil, and all who are his, w r ill be confined 
forever in the lake of fire in this earth. It is a prison, 
and is called a bottomless pit, in which they are all 
to be confined for ever, and that prison is called a 
lake of fire that will burn for ever. We have all that 
in this earth, and if some other planet in this system 
has a lake of fire in it, we would have to leave this 
earth and go up through the air called heaven to 
find it, and we have no orders in the Bible to go up, 
or leave this earth, to find hell, or the devil's home; 
and at the end of the age of man Christ will come 
with his elect and surround the earth, and all his 
children living on the earth then will be caught up 
with him, and changed from a natural to a spiritual 
body; and those who are not his will be left on the 
earth; then the unrighteous dead are raised, and 
they must come from the earth; and they do not leave 
it, for we are told they "will say to the mountains and 
rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him 
that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the 
Lamb. For the great day of his wrath is come, and 
who shall be able to stand ? " (Rev, 6 : 16, 17.) "And 



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LOCATION OF HELL. 37 

the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death 
and hell delivered up the dead which were in them; 
and they were judged every man according to their 
works; and death and hell were cast into the lake of 
fire. This is the second death, and whosoever was 
not found written in the book of life was cast into the 
lake of fire." (Rev. 20 : 13, 14, 15.). Not UP TO, but 
INTO, the lake of fire. 

This will be done at the third and last coming of 
Christ, to burn the air, melt the hills, and make all 
things new. And to confine the devil and the lost 
in the lake of fire that is in this earth; afire that was 
kindled in this earth long before man was created. 
For the Lord has said, " A fire is kindled in mine 
anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and 
shall consume the earth with her increase, and set 
on fire the foundations of the mountains." (Deut. 32: 
22.) The foundations of the mountains confine the 
lake of fire which is in this earth. And at the end 
of the world it will burn up all the works of man 
called the increase of the earth. And that fire is to 
burn to the lowest hell, or the centre of this earth, 
for that is the end of down, or the lowest place in 
this earth. " Though they dig into hell, thence shall 
mine hand take them; though they climb up to 
heaven, thence will I bring them down." (Amos 
9:2.) 

I have shown now that all the redeemed are taken 
up to heaven, and will return to the earth with Christ 
at his last coming. And all the lost, who have, by 



38 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

their works on the earth, at the end of this life been 
left with the god of this world, will after the last 
resurrection be ordered to return to the same place 
of torment. " Hell is naked before him, and de- 
struction hath no covering " (to conceal it from the 
Creator). " He stretcheth out the north over the 
empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." 
(Job 26 : 6, 7.) Job understood, then, that the earth 
was hung on nothing. What empty place does he 
refer to ? Was it the lake of fire in this earth that 
would be most empty at that time if it was compared 
to what it w T ill be at the end of the world ? 

The devil makes most men believe that hell is not 
a lake of fire, and it is not in this earth. That is 
nothing new for him, for he makes men believe a 
lie is the truth when ever he can. Men in all ages 
of the world have believed there was a place of re- 
ward and punishment in a future state. And if men 
who attempt to explain the Bible tell us they do 
not know where hell is, or what kind of a place it is, 
leaving all those who look to them for instruction in 
darkness on this subject, withholding from them the 
light the Lord has given to us in his Word, the re- 
sult will be that all w r ho want instruction on this 
subject will come to this conclusion, that if the 
preacher does not understand what is said in the 
Bible about hell, and its location, they will not try 
to understand or believe what is said about it. 
They are then left to form all kinds of opinions 
about hell, and very few would think alike on this 



LOCATION OF HELL. 39 

subject; for every one would be left to form his 
own opinion. This is a mistake, for the author of 
the Bible does not intend for us to be left in the 
dark about the future home of the lost. And I do 
not think the Lord will be pleased with men he has 
called to explain his Word, if they do not under- 
stand, believe, and explain what he has revealed to 
them in that Word on this subject. 

All that men have said or written about hell 
amounts to nothing if it is not founded on the Bible. 
If the Lord has told us where it is located, and what 
kind of a place it is, then all men should believe it; 
for the Lord has revealed it. He has told us heav- 
en, or Christ's kingdom, is up in the third heave- 
up from the earth; all are willing to believe heaven 
is up. The Lord has told all men w r ho live on the 
earth that hell is down. That is the opposite to up. 
It is all plain; we understand the meaning of the 
word down as well as we do the word up. The 
meaning of heaven is, heave-up. And hell means a 
covered or concealed place. The lake of fire in this 
earth would be a prison that would cover and con- 
ceal the lost from the light of heaven. The word 
down derives its meaning from the law of attraction, 
and this earth attracts to its centre; that is the end 
of down so far as this world is concerned. The sun 
is the centre of this system of worlds and attracts to 
its centre. But that attraction does not interfere 
with or control the earth's attraction. Then if men 
on all sides of this earth are ordered to go down, 



4-0 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

they must go down to the centre of this earth, and 
say that is the end of down, for they would weigh 
nothing at that point, for the earth could not attract 
there. The interior of this earth can be called a 
lake of fire, and it could be called a bottomless pit, 
for there would be no bottom or foundation at the 
centre. And the foundation of the mountains are 
all outside, and forms the prison walls to confine 
the lake of fire and brimstone in this earth. " And 
thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, 
shalt be brought down to hell, for if the mighty works 
which have been done in thee had been done in 
Sodom, it would have remained until this day." 
(Matt, ii : 23.) 

God's truth has been made plainer to us; do we 
understand and believe it ? If Christ should ask us 
why we do not believe we must go down to find hell, 
what reason could we give for wanting to go up 
from this earth in space called heaven, to some other 
planet in this system, and then go down in that to 
find the devil's place of confinement ? And if it did 
not correspond with the interior of this earth we 
could not say it was the home for the lost described 
in the Bible. And it could not be in open space, 
for it must be surrounded by prison walls, so that 
the Lord could seal it up for a thousand years and 
then open it, and loose the devil from his prison. 
" And I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth; 
and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. 
And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose 



LOCATION OF HELL. 41 

a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great fur- 
nace; and the sun and the air were darkened by 
reason of the smoke of the pit, and there came 
out of the smoke locusts upon the earth; and unto 
them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth 
have power. And it was commanded them that 
they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither 
any green thing, neither any tree; but only those 
men which have not the seal of God in their fore- 
heads. And to them it was given that they should 
not kill them, but that they should be tormented five 
months: and their torment was as the torment of a 
scorpion when he striketh a man. And in those 
days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and 
shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 
And the shape of the locusts were like unto horses 
prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it 
were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the 
faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of 
women; and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 
And they had breastplates as it were of iron; and 
the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots, 
of many horses running to battle. And they had 
tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in 
their tails; and their power was to hurt men five 
months. And they had a king over them which is 
the angel of the bottomless pit." (Rev. 9 : I— 1 1.) 

This prophecy has not been fulfilled yet, but it will 
be, on this earth, before the end comes. The proph- 
et Joel in the second chapter, tells us of the same 



42 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

event more than 800 years before John wrote this in 
Revelation. Please read the second chapter of Joel 
and compare it. I think no one can deny or change 
the statements made by the prophets, that the bot- 
tomless pit, opened then, was opened on this earth. 
The leader of the fallen angels, with his host, came 
out of the opening made by the star that fell from 
heaven to the earth. And the Lord permits them 
to do this to torment men on this earth for their 
wickedness, but they are not allowed to kill them, 
and they will not harm God's children who live on 
the earth at that time. This all goes to show that 
it will be while the devil is permitted to deceive men. 
And good and bad men will live on the earth then 
as now. The time they torment men is five months, 
and it must be done before the end of the world, for 
men are in human form, and good and evil is on the 
earth. When a preacher is talking about hell, he 
points down, but does not tell what he means by it. 
If he could go in the direction he pointed till he 
could meet a preacher from the other side of 'the 
earth, they could then say they had found the end 
of down, and it was in the centre of this earth. As 
right is the opposite to wrong, so heaven is the op- 
posite to hell. If a man is told to climb up in a tree, 
and one to go down in a well, they would both under- 
stand what you told them. But when God tells us 
we must climb up to heaven, and go down, or dig 
into hell, men do not understand him. If we look 
at this, and think it over, we will see the devil is 



LOCATION OF HELL. 43 

blinding men, and concealing this truth from them. 
They should tell him to get behind them, and then 
they can understand and believe this part of God's 
word. 

At Christ's last coming to the earth to make all 
things new, he brings his elect with him. But he 
has said nothing about bringing the devil and the 
souls of the lost to the earth. And he has not 
told us in the Bible they will ever be taken from the 
earth or return to it. They will be on the earth, 
and in it, and when they are taken out of hell to 
judgment, will want the mountains to hide them 
from the Son of God. They did not love him when 
they lived on the earth, and they will not love him 
then. For they know he will tell them to depart 
from him into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil 
and his angels. The devil is called a deceiver, and 
all men should see that he does not deceive them, or 
make them believe hell is up from the earth in space, 
when the Bible tells us it is down in the earth. If 
the Lord had not intended for us to make some use 
of what he has said about hell, he would not have 
said so much about it. If men who profess to believe 
the Bible is a divine revelation do not understand 
or believe what the Bible tells them about hell, can 
they blame those who do not believe th^ Bible if 
they say there is no hell, and make no effort to 
escape from it, or try to secure eternal life ? For 
they know nothing about eternal death, or eternal 
separation from the God of Heaven. I think it is 



44 LOCATION Of HEAVEN AND HELL. 

our duty to believe all the Son of God and the Holy 
Spirit have told us about heaven and hell, or the 
unseen worlds. It will do us no harm, and it may do 
others good, and show our respect for the author of 
the Bible by believing w T hat he has revealed to us. 
" And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather 
together his elect from the four winds, from the 
uttermost part of the earth, to the uttermost part of 
heaven." (Mark 13 : 27.) That includes all heaven 
and all the earth, but not hell or the lost. 

All space is called heaven, and hell must be in 
this earth or in some other planet in this system of 
worlds, for no other place is found. "Who shall 
ascend into heaven to bring Christ down from above? 
or who shall descend into the deep, to bring up 
Christ again from the dead?" (Rom. 10:6.) That 
calls the grave deep; hell is in the same direction, 
only deeper; and the sea is called deep. "The Lord 
looked down from heaven upon the children of men, 
to see if any did understand God." (Psa. 14 : 2.) 
This is very plain, and all could understand Him if 
they could understand what up and down means, for 
it is very plain in the Bible. The devil wants men 
to add to or take from the Word of God. And he 
does not want us to believe hell, or his home, is in 
this earth. The Son of God w T as a plain preacher 
on this subject, and if it was not the truth, the devil 
would have told Christ, when he tempted him, that 
what He had said about his home, and what was said 
about it in the Bible, was not true. "To go into 



LOCATION OF HELL. 45 

hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched . . . 
where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not 
quenched. To be cast into hell, into the fire that 
never shall be quenched . . . where their worm dieth 
not, and the fire is not quenched. To be cast into 
hell fire . . . where their worm dieth not, and the fire 
is not quenched." This is the language used by the 
Son of God, and recorded in Mark 9 : 43, 48. 

What do men do with this when they say they do 
not believe hell is a lake of fire? " The wicked shall 
be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget 
God." (Psa. 9 : 17.) This does not refer to the body 
in the grave, but to the soul in the fire of hell; and 
they are not carried away to hell, but turned into 
hell ! The word bottomless pit is in the Book of 
Revelation seven times, and it refers to the devil's 
home, and locates it in this earth. " The beast that 
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war 
against them and kill them." (Rev. n : 7.) This 
beast, or the devil, did not come down to the earth 
to make war with men, but he ascended or came up 
out of the bottomless pit that is in the earth. "The 
beast shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and 
they that dwell on the earth shall wonder." (Rev. 
17 : 8.) " Nor height, nor depth, nor any other crea- 
ture, shall be able to separate us from the love of 
God." (Rom. 8 : 39.) Christ "was set up from ever- 
lasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 
Whe.: there were no depths, I was brought forth. 
Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, 



46 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

was I brought forth." (Prov. 8 : 23, 24, 25.) In this 
the Son of God would have us understand he was 
with his Father before the world was, or before 
there were any depths or mountains. There are 
depths in this earth that would interest men on the 
earth, the creation of which he was talking about. 
Christ ordered the legion of devils out of the man; 
"and the devils besought him that he would not 
command them to go into the deep." (Luke 8 : 31.) 
They did not want to go down in the lake of fire 
in this earth, called deep. They wanted to go in 
the swine, and drive them into the sea, and then 
enter into the men who lived in that place, and make 
them believe that Christ was the person who made 
the swine go into the sea; and the devils got the 
men to pray for Christ " to depart out of their 
coast." 

The devil is doing the same kind of work now. 
"And Balaam answered and said unto the servants 
ofBalak: If Balak would give me his house full of 
silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the 
Lord my God, to do less or more." (Num. 22 : 18.) 
If that prophet could not change the word of the 
Lord in a case as trifling as that, can we think the 
Son of God and, all the prophets who point to the 
location of hell, and give the same description of it, 
could do so if it was not true, and did not correspond 
with what had been revealed to them by the God of 
heaven ? "And when Balaam went with the princes 
of Moab, the Lord sent his angel to stop him, and 



LOCATION OF HELL. 4'/ 

when the ass saw the angel of the Lord she fell 
down under Balaam. And the Lord opened the 
mouth of the ass, and she said unto Balaam, What 
have I done unto thee, that thou hast smitten me 
these three times ? Then the Lord opened the eyes 
of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord stand- 
ing in the way and his sword drawn in his hand; 
and he bowed down his head and fell flat on his 
face. And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, 
I have sinned. " (Num. 22 : 21, 28, 31, 34.) That 
prophet did not change the word of the Lord, and 
the Lord sent a prophet from Judah to Bethel to tell 
Jeroboam about the birth of Christ: "Behold, a 
child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah 
by name." And the king wanted the man of God to 
come in and refresh himself, and he would give him 
a reward. The man of God said he would not go in 
and eat bread with him for half his house, for the 
Lord told him not to eat bread or drink water in 
that place, and not to return by the way he went. 
So he went another way, and returned not by the 
way he came. And the devil sent a prophet after 
him, and he wanted the man of God to come home 
with him and eat bread, and the prophet refused to 
go; but the devil's prophet lied to him, and told 
him an angel of the Lord had told him that he, the 
the man of God, could go back and eat bread with 
him. So he went back with him and did eat bread 
in his house; he disobeyed, and it cost him his life. 
And the Lord told him, for disobeying his command, 



48 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

his carcass should not come to the sepulchre of his 
fathers, and on his way home a lion met him by the 
way and slew him. (i Kings 13.) 

I refer to these historic events recorded in the 
Bible to show the readers of this book that it was 
not safe for a prophet of the Lord, at that time, to 
change the word of the Lord, or try to do it. Is it 
safe for men in this age of the world to change the 
meaning of the words used by the inspired writers 
to explain God's truth to us, and tell men that this 
and that part of his Word is not to be understood, or 
obeyed as it is written ? Men in all ages of the 
world have been doing more or less of this, and in 
many cases the inspired writers have given us an 
account of how the Lord dealt with men who 
changed some of his small commands, and did 
something they thought would do as well. We 
must remember, if the Lord has told us to do or be- 
lieve something, and w T e are tempted to do some- 
thing that would take the place of it, or do as well 
as the Lord's command in our estimation, the evil 
spirit is the author of that change, and we are told, 
" For I testify unto every man that heareth the 
words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall 
add unto these things, God shall add unto him the 
plagues that are written in this book." (Rev. 22 : 
18.) The same if we take from it. " The words of 
the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace 
of earth, purified seven times." (Psa. 12:6.) The 
Lord has given us his Word, and he has a right to 



LOCATION OF HELL. 49 

tell us it is pure as silver can be, and is composed of 
truth unmixed with error, and will all be fulfilled; 
and we have no right to change it. If we take this 
view of that part of God's Word which describes and 
locates hell, how can we change it, or refuse to be- 
lieve what the Lord has said about it, and say we 
love, believe, and want to obey the author of the 
Bible ? I will leave this for the reader to answer. 
The prophet has told us that " By these three was 
the third part of men killed: by the fire, and by the 
smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of 
their mouths; and the rest of the men that were not 
killed by these plagues repented not, but worshiped 
devils and idols." (Rev. 9 : 18, 20.) The evil spirits 
with the leader of the fallen angels will come out of 
the earth and do this after the devil's release from 
prison. And the other two-thirds worshipped 
devils and idols, and would not repent. " Then shall 
he say also unto them on his left hand, Depart from 
me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire prepared for the 
devil and his angels." (Matt. 25 : 41.) At that 
time, the Son of God, with all whom he calls his 
children, are in the air around the earth with those 
who had been caught up and changed in the twink- 
ling of an eye. He does not tell the lost to go in 
space above him, but they are to go into everlast- 
ing fire. We have fire in this earth; can we find 
another ? and to find it we will not go up. 

The devil is called " the prince of this world" 
(John 12 : 31) and " the God of this world." (2 Cor, 



50 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

4:4) He is a god and ruler over all me.; who are 
not delivered from his power and control by the Son 
of God. Christ is called the light of the world : and 
the devil uses all the power he has over the minds 
of men to conceal that light, called wisdom, that 
cometh down from above. We are told by that 
light to try the spirit that is trying to control or in- 
struct us, that is, by the light of God's Word, before 
we decide to obey and be governed by it. 

The Bible gives us all the instruction we want in 
this life. And it throws a light on the unseen 
worlds, if we do not allow the devil to throw his 
dark mantle over it. We are told that " Jesus was 
full of the Holy Ghost when He was tempted forty 
days by the devil. And in those days He did eat 
nothing." (Luke 4 : 2.) Christ could have turned 
the stones into bread, for he did create bread after 
that, and turn water into wine. Bit if he had done 
it when the devil told him to do it, he would have 
obeyed him, and that would have made him the dev- 
il's servant, and he could not have been offered as a 
sinless sacrifice for us. There was no harm in Christ 
turning the stones to bread, if the devil had not 
asked him to do it. The devil tells men to do and 
believe many things now, and men do not see any 
harm in it, and there would be no harm or sin in it 
if the devil had not told them to do it, or believe 
him instead of the Word of God. By that we know 
and should believe its author. If we do not believe 
hell is a lake of fire down in a bottomless pit in this 



LOCATION OF HELL. 5 1 

earth, a covered and concealed place, called a prison, 
in which the devil, his angels and the souls of all the 
lost are to be confined forever — where the soul dieth 
not and the fire is not quenched forever (a truth 
that is made very plain in the Bible), is it not the 
devil who tells us not to believe that part of God's 
Word ? It was the devil who would not let the Jews 
believe that Christ was to come and be offered a sac- 
rifice for sin before he would be a king on the throne 
of David. And the same evil spirit prevents men, 
now, from believing Christ will come, and confine 
the devil, bring salvation to all who live on the earth 
for a thousand years, and then loose him to deceive 
the nations of the earth before the end comes. 

The history of the Jews from that time to the pres- 
ent proves that they believed and obeyed the devil, 
and not the prophets, or the instruction given to 
them in the Word of God. And if it has not bene- 
fited them to be governed by and to obey the devil, 
it will not pay us or any of our race. " For the grave 
cannot praise thee; death cannot celebrate thee; 
they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy 
truth." (Isaiah 38: 18.) All who go to the grave 
without receiving the pardon offered them in the 
Bible will go down into the pit called hell, and will 
receive no benefit from God's truth. The body in 
the grave, or the soul in hell, will not praise him if 
they go DOWN into the pit. But all who go UP to 
heaven will praise him. "For as the heavens are 
higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than 



52 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts, 
saith the Lord." (Isaiah 55 : 9.) That locates heaven 
above and around the earth. " But will God indeed 
dwell on the earth ? Behold, the heaven and heaven 
of heavens cannot contain thee." (1 Kings 8 : 27.) 
''Thus saith the Lord, If heaven above can be 
measured, and the foundations of the earth searched 
out beneath.''' (Jer. 31 : 37.) " The heaven for height 
and the earth for depth." (Prov. 25 : 3.) " Her 
house is the way to hell, going DOWN to the cham- 
bers of death." (Prov. 7 : 27.) 

In this we are told the lost go DOWN when they 
go to hell — called eternal death — and not UP or away 
from the earth. The redeemed will go down to the 
grave, but their souls will leave the earth and as- 
cend to heaven, to eternal life, or eternal union with 
the God of heaven, and be free from the god of this 
world. "Thus saith the Lord God, In the day when 
he went down to the grave, I made the nations to 
shake at the sound of his fall; when I cast him 
down to hell with them that descend into the pit, 
they also went down into hell." (Ezek. 31:15, 
16, 17.) "Son of man, wail for the multitude of 
Egypt, and cast them down, her and the daughters 
of the famous nations, into the nether parts of 
the earth, with them that go down into the pit. 

. . . The strong among the mighty shall speak 
to him out of the midst of hell; with them that help 
him they are gone down; they lie uncircumcised, 
slain by the sword. Asshur is there, and all her 



LOCATION OF HELL. 53 

company; his graves are about him, all of them slain, 
fallen by the sword," or death. (Ezek. 32 : 18, 21, 22.) 
" Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and 
her company is round about her grave, all of them 
slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the 
land of the living." (Ezek. 32 : 23.) The prophet 
speaks of men who have lived on the earth, or in the 
land of the living, but had been slain by the sword 
of death, and their graves are in the sides of the pit. 
Friends living on the earth are round about their 
graves, and their souls had gone down into hell, and 
they were to wail for the multitude of Egypt. That 
must refer to the multitude who were drowned in the 
Red Sea. Their bodies were in the sea, but their 
souls had gone down into the nether parts of the 
earth, with them who go down to the pit. Hell is 
called a pit, and I do not see how we can be mis- 
taken about the location of the pit pointed to by the 
prophet as the eternal home of the souls of the host 
of Egypt. The multitude of Elam, and the com- 
pany of Asshur, with those who had been strong 
and mighty on the earth, but now must speak to 
him out of the midst of hell, they were not on the 
earth then, for they had been slain by the sword of 
death. We are not told that angels took them to 
any other place in space, or took them from the earth, 
but they were taken down into the pit. " There is 
Edom; her kings and all her princes have gone down 
to the pit. There be the princes of the north, all of 
them bear their shame with them that go down to 



54 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

the pit. Pharaoh shall see them; and shall be com- 
forted over all his multitude; even Pharaoh and all 
his army slain by the sword, saith the Lord." (Ezek. 
32:29, 30, 31.) Pharaoh and his army had been 
drowned nine hundred years before the Lord ordered 
Ezekiel to write this. The Lord knew where Pha- 
raoh and his army were, and where he was sending 
the souls of all those the prophet speaks of. And 
he knew that Pharaoh was glad to see the Jews come 
to that place of torment with him and his host. "And 
the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up Ko- 
rah and his company; and they all went down alive 
into the pit, and the earth closed upon them." (Num. 
16 : 32, 33.) Did the souls of that company who 
went down with their bodies in the earth go on 
down when they left the body to the lake of fire and 
bottomless pit in the earth, or did they come up from 
that pit and go on up in space to find the home of 
the evil spirit who had advised them not to be ruled 
over by Moses, and who refused to obey the Lord 
who had delivered them from Egypt? He had done 
for them many wonderful works, that should have 
convinced them that they had not been delivered by 
the hand of Moses, but by the Lord, who ruled the 
earth, and had control of all created things. The 
result of that rebellion, and lessons of that kind, 
recorded in the Bible, should warn us not to try ex- 
periments, or even refuse to believe what is revealed, 
or refuse to obey the commands the Lord has given 
us in his Word. They went down in the earth in the 



LOCATION OF HELL. 55 

pit, and the earth swallowed them up. If the soul 
or spirit (which is the person) came up from that pit 
and then went up from the earth in space to find the 
home of that evil spirit, and the home the Lord has 
prepared for him and all the lost, I think the Lord 
would have told us about it; for the inspired writers 
have been careful to give a correct account of all 
that was done by men, right or wrong. 

All that the Lord has said to us in the Bible about 
heaven tells us it is up in space from the earth. 
And all they have said about the home of the fallen 
angels locates it on this earth; and their future home, 
in which they are to be confined forever, is in the 
earth. " And he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, 
and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom. 
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy 
on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of 
his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tor- 
mented in this flame." (Luke 16 : 23, 24.) What 
right have we to say the description given by the 
Son of God of the rich man in hell does not give a 
true picture of hell and all the lost? He selects a 
man who had not been in hell long, and a man who 
supposed himself prepared for heaven; and his bro- 
thers on the earth supposed he was, for they were 
living in the same way. He calls Abraham his 
father. He had five brothers living on the earth, and 
he did not want them to come to that place of tor- 
ment : and he wanted one sent from the dead to tell 
them not to come to that place. And Christ said if 



56 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

they would not believe what Moses and the prophets 
had said to them, they would not believe if one went 
from the dead. Christ raised himself and others 
from the dead, and many who lived in his day 
did not believe on him. Christ tells us he could see 
into heaven. We do not know how far the spiritual 
eye of the lost can see, and there are openings in the 
earth for the lake of fire, and the prison walls are not 
sealed up yet. And Stephen said he could see the 
Son of God in heaven before his death, and the lost 
could see from this earth to heaven as well as they 
could from any other planet in this system of worlds. 
The Lord told Saul to " go and smite Amalek, and 
spare nothing." Saul went, and took a large army 
with him, and could have done all the Lord had told 
him to do. He destroyed all the people except the 
king, and took him to Samuel. And he spared the 
best sheep, lambs, and oxen. He spared them to 
make a sacrifice unto the Lord. And then Samuel 
told him that to obey was better than sacrifice, and 
rebellion was as the sin of witchcraft, and because 
he had rejected the word of the Lord he would be 
rejected by the Lord from being king. And then 
Saul said, the people took the sheep and oxen; but 
the Lord held Saul responsible, for he could have 
controlled the people. " And Samuel came no more 
to see Saul until the day of his death." (i Sam. 15.) 
Twenty-four years from this event the Philistines 
gathered themselves together to make war on Saul, 
and when Saul saw the host he was afraid. And 



LOCATION OF HELL. 57 

Saul inquired of the Lord, and he answered him not. 
And the evil spirit that had controlled Saul advised 
him to go and see a witch ; and Saul disguised him- 
self, and put on other raiment, and went as directed, 
(i Sam. 28.) Saul knew how to inquire of the Lord, 
and said he could not receive any answer. Then, 
the Lord did not send him to the witch, but he went 
to see her as led to do by the devil. The woman 
was afraid to grant his request. For Saul had put 
the witches and wizards to death, and she thought 
some one was laying a snare for her life. And Saul 
swore by the Lord that she should not be harmed. 
Then she asked, " Whom shall I bring up unto thee ?" 
And he said, " Bring up Samuel," for the evil spirit 
never wanted his servants to call for him, as he could 
deceive them better under the mantle of some one 
the person wanted to see. The person or spirit who 
came up at her call told her she was talking to King 
Saul, and she cried with a loud voice and asked Saul 
why he had deceived her. And the king said unto 
her, " Be not afraid, for what sawest thou ? And the 
woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of 
the earth. And he said unto her, What form is he 
of? And she said, An old man cometh up and he is 
covered with a mantle." Saul had deceived the 
woman, and now the devil had deceived him, for he 
thought it was Samuel. He would not have come 
from heaven and said to Saul, " Why hast thou dis- 
quieted me, to bring me up?" Think of Samuel 
coming up out of the ground, at the call of a witch, 



58 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

and then finding fault because he had to come and 
see a witch whom he would not have spoken to when 
he was living on the earth ! If Samuel had come as 
described, Saul could have seen him if the woman 
could. Satan knew that Saul had nothing left to rely 
on but his courage, and he wanted to take that from 
him. And he did it by telling him what he claimed 
Samuel had told him through the w T itch. And Saul 
fell on the earth, and was sore afraid. Think of the 
King of Israel on the ground in a stable ! for the 
woman had a fat calf in the house, and she killed it, 
and perhaps Saul ate his last meal in that hut with a 
witch, and food prepared by her for them. They 
did not ask Satan, whom they had called to bring up 
Samuel to dine with them. But that spirit had done 
his work well. For Saul was not fit then to be a king 
or the commander of an army. He would not be- 
lieve what Samuel had told him in his lifetime, but 
he believed what he supposed Samuel had told him 
when he came from heaven at the call of a witch. 
The following is w T hat the Lord told the Jews to do 
with a witch. " Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." 
(Ex. 22 : 18.) " There shall not be among you a 
witch." (Deut. 18 : io.) "The soul that turns after 
wizards I will cut off." (Lev. 20 : 6.) No one would 
think the Lord would send Samuel from heaven at 
the call of a witch. He had ordered the Jews to put 
them to death, and King Saul had put them to death. 
The inspired writer has told us what the woman, 
Saul, and the spirit said, but he does not say the 



LOCATION OF HELL. 59 

Lord said it was Samuel, and it was not. Then it 
was the evil spirit who said to Saul, " The Lord will 
also deliver Israel with thee into the hand of the 
Philistines ; and to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons 
be with me ; the Lord also shall deliver the host of 
Israel into the hand of the Philistines." (i Sam. 28 : 
19.) The Lord had allowed the evil spirit to con- 
trol Saul. And Satan knew the time had come, and 
he on the morrow could take him home, and then he 
would be with the spirit that was conversing with 
him. Saul could not go to heaven with Samuel, and 
Saul and his sons did not go to the grave as Samuel 
did. For the Philistines took the body of Saul and 
the bodies of his sons and burnt them. Saul refused 
to obey the Lord and had obeyed the evil spirit for 
twenty-four years. He could not receive any infor- 
mation from the Lord or Samuel, and had gone to a 
witch to learn his fate ; and Saul took a sword, and 
fell upon it, and took his own life, therefore, he could 
not go to heaven, but he was to go with the spirit 
that the witch said was " gods ascending out of the 
earth." Must we believe it was Samuel because the 
Bible tells us Samuel said it ? Samuel HAD said it 
before the devil, but that does not prove he said it 
then. The Bible tells us, " The serpent said u*nto 
the woman, Ye shall not surely die." (Gen. 3 : 4.) 
It was Satan, not the serpent, said it, and again the 
ass opened her mouth and spoke to Balaam ; it was 
the angel that spake for the ass, and it was Satan 
that spoke for Samuel to deceive Saul, and then took 



60 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

the spirit of Saul into the earth with him. For Saul 
could not go with Samuel to heaven. 

The woman saw gods, or more than one, ascend- 
ing out of the earth. They told her she was talking 
to Saul. And they could have told her to make him 
believe she had called up Samuel, or an old man 
covered with a mantle, for this does not agree with 
what she first said, and she does not call the spirit 
" gods " after that. She was told to call up Samuel; 
but she did not call him Samuel when he first came up. 
And if he did come to Saul, there was no use of his 
coming in disguise, or of his talking to the witch. He 
would have talked direct to Saul. Look at the place 
and the company. The house has a ground floor. It 
is occupied by the witch and her fat calf. King Saul 
lay on the earth a coward. Saul's two servants were 
looking on. Would the prophet Samuel come from 
heaven to honor that place and company with his 
presence ? We have no account of his coming to 
the earth since. Dear reader, if you cannot see 
through the mantle the devil got this witch to throw 
over him, you could not read the mind of a person 
well enough to make a living by telling fortunes. 
From this we learn that King Saul had been for- 
saken by the Lord, and tried for twenty-four years 
to kill David. He is then told, by gods called up 
out of the earth by a witch, the result of the battle 
on the morrow, and then he and his sons would be 
in the earth with him. That fulfilled Samuel's proph- 
ecy, and which the witch's gods used to make him 
think it was Samuel. 



LOCATION OF HELL. 6l 

"Now there was a day when the sons of God 
came to present themselves before the Lord: and 
Satan came also among them. And the Lord said 
unto Satan, Whence comest thou ? Then Satan an- 
swered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in 
the earth, and from walking up and down in it." 
(Job I : 6, 7.) The Book of Job was written 1,520 
years before the birth of Christ. The son of God 
had children on the earth then, and he was talking 
with them. And Satan admitted his occupation then 
was to walk up and down in the earth. And his works 
will prove he has been, and is, doing the same thing 
yet. And I think he has made this world his abode 
long enough to call it his home. And he will be on 
the earth at the second, and third or last, coming of 
Christ. 

The Lord permitted the devil to afflict Job to 
show all men he had power to control the devil, and 
he could not afflict men without the Lord's permis- 
sion. Men have been, like King Saul, willing to 
obey the devil. And the Lord has let him afflict 
them because they did not obey the word of the 
Lord. Faith and obedience is better than sacrifice. 

Satan had control of the Sabeans who slew Job's 
oxen and asses, and of the fire of God that fell from 
heaven and burned up the sheep and the servants, 
and also of the Chaldeans who took the camels, and 
the wind that smote the house and killed Job's sons, 
and also of Job's wife when she said to him, " Curse 
God and die," And he must have controlled Job's 



62 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

friends who were w T ith him seven days and seven 
nights, and none spake a word unto him. We learn 
from this that Satan can control men and the ele- 
ments when the Lord permits him to do it. He did 
his work in away to make Job think the Lord was 
doing it, and Job did think he was when he said, 
"The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away." 
(Job i : 21.) But the Lord protected Job and he 
sinned not. "As for the earth, out of it cometh 
bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire." 
(Job 28 : 5.) The grain that grows from the earth 
we use to make bread. Then in or under the earth 
is a fire that has never gone out. " The depth saith, 
Wisdom is not in me, and the sea saith, It is not in 
me." (Job 28 : 14.) We go down in the deep when 
we go down in the sea. But in that verse the Lord 
speaks of another depth, that would go down to the 
centre of the earth — the end of depths. "He will 
deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life 
shall see the light." (Job 33 : 28.) This does not 
promise to deliver the body of Christ from going 
down into the grave. But the Lord would not let 
his soul go into the bottomless pit. For he was to 
go up to paradise. " He keepeth back his soul from 
the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword." 
(Job 33 : 18.) " He maketh the deep to boil like a 
pot." (Job 41 : 31.) The sea does not boil, and that 
must refer to the fire in this earth, for that is called 
deep. 

Christ said to the Jews, "Ye are of your father 



LOCATION OF HELL. 63 

the devil." (John 8 : 44.) They are his children for 
they obey him. Jonah was a prophet, and he refused 
to obey the Lord's command, and went on board 
a ship to flee from the work the Lord had told him 
to do. The Lord followed him. He was thrown 
into the sea. " And the Lord had prepared a great 
fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the 
belly of the fish three days and three nights." (Jonah 
1 : 17.) "For as Jonas was three days and three 
nights in the fish's belly, so shall the Son of man 
be three days and three nights in the heart of the 
earth." (Matt. 12:40.) This refers to the body of 
Christ, and not his soul, for that went to paradise. 
And to the body of Jonah and not his soul, for his 
soul at that time we are told, went into the belly of 
hell. That chastisement prepared Jonah to do the 
Lord's work well. And the death and resurrection 
of Christ prepared him for the great work he came 
to do for our race. 

" Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out 
of the fish's belly." (Jonah 2 : 1.) " When my soul 
fainted within me I remembered the Lord; and my 
prayer came in unto thee, into thine Holy temple." 
(Jonah 2:7.) The words "fainted" and "sleep" 
are used when the Lord speaks of separating the 
soul and body. " The waters compassed me about, 
even to the soul: the depth closed round about, the 
weeds were wrapped about my head." (Jonah 2 : 5.) 
" I went down to the bottom of the mountains; the 
earth with her bars was about me forever: yet hast 



64 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

thou brought up my life from corruption, Lord, my 
God." (Jonah 2:6.) "And I cried by reason of 
mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me: out 
of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my 
voice." (Jonah 2 : 2.) When the weeds were about 
Jonah's head he must refer to his spiritual body after 
he had left the fish, and before he went to the bot- 
tom of the mountains or down into the belly of hell. 
And in answer to that prayer the Lord delivered his 
soul from hell, and his body, like Christ's, did not 
see corruption; for his soul returned to his body, 
and, like Christ, he was raised from the dead in 
three days from the time the fish swallowed him. 

It would be a greater miracle for the Lord to keep 
the soul of Jonah in his body in the fish three days 
than it would to let the soul go from the body, as 
the law of nature directs, and then return to it, as 
the soul of Christ did. If we cannot prove by this 
that the soul of Jonah left the body and he w T as 
raised from the dead, how can we prove that Christ 
was dead or was raised from the dead. For the law 
that unites and keeps the soul and body together 
was as much violated in the one case as it was in the 
other. And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it 
vomited out Jonah upon the dry land." (Jonah 2 : 10.) 
Then the Lord gave Jonah the same command, and 
he went and obeyed the Lord, and the city of Nine- 
veh was not overthrown. 

The Lord told the prophet to say to the King of 
Babylon, 'Hell from beneath is moved for thee to 



LOCATION OF HELL. 65 

meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for 
thee." (Isa. 14 : 9.) The dead who were to meet 
the King at his coming must be the souls of those 
who had gone to the pit before him, and were wait- 
ing for and expecting him to come. "All they 
shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become 
weak as we ? Art thou become like unto us ? Thy 
pomp is brought down to the grave, the worm is 
spread under thee, and the worms cover thee." 
(Isa. 14:10, 11.) His body must have been in 
the grave then, and his soul gone down into the pit 
with those who were expecting him. "For thou 
hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I 
will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will 
ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like 
the MOST High. Yet thou shalt be brought down 
to hell, to the sides of the pit." (Isa. 14: 13, 14, 
15.) The King of Babylon, after he was in the grave 
with " worms under and over him " could not ascend 
above the clouds, but must be cast down to hell to 
the sides of the pit. That must locate the bottom- 
less pit in this earth. This was written by Isaiah 
one hundred and seventy years before it was fulfilled. 
" In that night was Belshazzar the King of the Chal- 
deans slain." (Dan. 5 : 30.) If the prophet could 
tell the proud kings of Babylon that they would be 
brought down to the bottomless pit in this earth, 
and those he had wronged would be glad to see him 
come to that place of torment deprived of all his 
wealth and power, the Lord must have revealed it 



66 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

to him. The King should have been instructed by 
this prophecy, and made wise improvement of the 
time given him to prepare for the end or the time 
for its fulfillment. " The Lord shall punish the kings 
of the earth upon the earth, and they shall be shut 
up in the prison, and after many days shall they be 
visited." (Isa. 24 : 21, 22.) The prison in which 
the kings of the earth are to be shut up for many 
days must be in this earth, for the kings of the earth 
are not put in prison in this life, but it is in a future 
state, and they will be visited and released at the 
resurrection. But the release or visit will be of 
short duration. " Praise the Lord from the earth, ye 
dragons and all deeps." (Psa. 198 : 7.) The bot- 
tomless pit is the home of the dragon, and is called 
all deeps. The pit in this earth is all the prison we 
have in which the devil could be confined for a 
thousand years, and where after the end of his re- 
lease or the last resurrection he will be confined for- 
ever. " Whither shall I flee from thy presence ? If 
I ascend up in heaven, thou art there. If I make my 
bed in hell, behold, thou art there." (Psa. 139 : 7, 8.) 
Then if we make our bed in hell, we do not ascend 
up into heaven. If we do not go down in this earth 
and do not ascend up from it in the air in space 
called heaven, where do we go to find a place called 
hell to make our bed in, that could be called a prison 
or place of confinement filled with everlasting fire 
like the fire in this earth ? "Whatsoever the Lord 
pleased, that did he in heaven and in the earth, in 



LOCATION OF HELL. 67 

the seas, and in all deep places." (Psa. 135 : 6.) Why 
do the prophets say so much about the deep places 
of the earth if we have no interest in them in time 
or eternity ? David in the 28th Psalm prayed that the 
Lord would not let him " become like them that go 
down into the pit." " Let not the water floods over- 
flow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and 
let not the pit shut her mouth upon me." (Psa. 59 : 
15.) ''Blessed be the Lord because he hath heard 
the voice of my supplication." (Psa. 28 : 6.) David 
in this life was sure he had the favor and blessing of 
God. It is not so with the wicked, for " upon the 
w r icked he shall rain snares and brimstone and a 
horrible tempest; this shall be the portion of their 
cup." (Psa. 11 : 6.) The pit that David prayed the 
Lord would deliver him from, and not let him go down 
into, was not the grave, for he did go to the grave; 
neither was it the trials he was called to pass 
through in this life. But the Holy Spirit taught 
him to pray to be delivered from going down into the 
bottomless pit or to the devil's abode, when he went 
into a future state. And the prayers of David are 
recorded in God's Word to instruct and encourage 
all men. " He that believeth not God hath made 
him a liar." (1 John 5 : 10.) "Let God be true, if 
that makes every man a liar." (Romans 3 : 4.) " And 
all liars shall have their part in the lake which 
burnetii with fire and brimstone, which is the second 
death." (Rev. 21 : 8.) That will be an eternal separa- 
tion from all who are in heaven, and from all who 



68 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

live or stay on the earth after the last coming of 
Christ; then his offer of salvation ends. " How shall 
we escape if we neglect so great salvation ? " (Heb. 
2:3.) " That through death he might destroy him 
that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and 
deliver them." (Heb. 2 : 14.) Christ came from 
heaven to this, the devil's home, to free men from 
his control. When we see how unwilling the god 
of this world is to lose control of his subjects, and 
how unwilling men are to secure this great salvation, 
we can form some idea of the value he places on the 
service of men, and the value the Son of God has 
placed on their deliverance. He has told all men 
he will save them if they will OBEY and SERVE him. 
And those who will not serve him as they are in- 
structed in his word to serve him in this life will be 
confined in this earth, and the curse will be on them 
as they dwell in that pit or prison. " And the smoke 
of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever." 
(Rev. 14 : 11.) And as the smoke from all the sacri- 
fices that had been offered to the God of heaven 
from Adam to Christ ascended up in space called 
heaven, so the smoke from the prison or pit in this 
earth could ascend up forever in the heaven that will 
be around the earth then. Christ came down from 
heaven to the earth, and went up from the earth 
when he went back to heaven. He does not tell us 
in his Word that the lost will be taken from this 
earth, but he tells us in plain words that they must 
go down into a bottomless pit. 



LOCATION OF HELL. 69 

" And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on 
the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven, and, 
behold, the angels of God ascending and descending 
on it; and, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, 
I am the Lord God of Abraham, thy father, and the 
God of Isaac." (Gen. 28 : 12, 13.) That ladder is 
Christ. The devil, his angels, and the lost will not 
go up to heaven on the promises or on the work of 
Christ; for they will not obey him, or be governed 
by his word in this life, and will not consent for him 
to dwell in and rule over them, for they are under 
the control of their father, the devil, and he deceives 
them, and they know it not. If the devil has a lad- 
der on which he and his can leave this earth and go 
to some other part of space, it has not been revealed 
to us in the Word of God. If men will believe what 
the Lord has told them in his Word about the loca- 
tion of the devil's home, and the description he has 
given of it, they will never think of leaving this earth 
and going up in space to find it. If men believe what 
the Lord has told them about other things, why not 
believe what he has written in his Word on this sub- 
ject? The Lord is the author of all language, and he 
must understand the meaning of the words he has 
ordered used in pointing to and in describing the bot- 
tomless pit, prepared for the home of the devil and 
all the lost. "Woe unto them that call evil good, 
and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light 
for darkness." That woe must rest on every person 
who refuses to believe any truth plainly taught in the 



70 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

Bible. It is not enough for us to believe what men 
tell us is good, or good enough tc prepare us for 
heaven, if it is not what the Lord has told us to do in 
his Word. For the Lord has said, many will strive 
to enter in, and will not be able. The Lord has 
promised eternal life to all who believe his Word and 
obey his commands. The promise is not tc those 
who obey the commands of men and believe what 
men tell them they must do to inherit eternal life. 
For men often put darkness for light. We can know 
the spirit that controls us by the instruction it gives; 
any spirit that tells us not to believe all we find in the 
Word of God we should say is not the right spirit. 

The Creator of heaven and earth tells men in his 
Word they must look up to heaven, climb up to heav- 
en, go up above the clouds to heaven, and calls all 
space above and around the earth heaven, up to the* 
third heaven; and then tells men who live on the 
earth they must go down into hell, down in the nether 
parts of the earth, in a prison he has prepared for the 
devil and his angels, who have made this earth their 
abode. And we have no words that will describe the 
interior of this earth better than the words used to 
describe hell. The reason men give for not believing 
this is that they do not know where hell is, and do 
not want to know, for they do not intend to go to 
that place. I think that is a very poor excuse for not 
believing what the Lord has told us in his Word about 
it: " For he hath looked down from the height of his 
sanctuary, from heaven did the Lord behold the 



LOCATION OF HELL. *J\ 

earth." (Psa. 102 : 19.) Heaven and height is the op- 
posite to down. " Of old hast thou laid the founda- 
tion of the earth, and the heavens are the work of 
thy hands." (Psa. 102 : 25.) This tells us the Lord cre- 
ated more than one heaven, and it is as important to 
create the third heaven around this system of worlds 
as it was to create the air around the earth and call 
it heaven. " For as the heaven is high above the 
earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear 
him." (Psa. 103 : 11.) This must point to the third 
heaven, for it speaks of a heaven far above the earth. 
" The Lord is high above all nations, and his glory 
above the heavens and the earth." (Psa. 113:4.) If 
the Lord is above the heavens and the earth, is he 
not above the devil and his home ? " Faith, if it hath 
not works, is dead being alone." (Jas. 2 : 17.) We may 
believe there is one God and one heaven, if that faith 
does not give us wisdom to understand and believe 
what is revealed to us in God's Word, and make us 
willing to obey his commands: will that faith pre- 
pare us for heaven, if it does not prepare us to do 
what the Lord calls good works while we are on this 
earth ? 

" Ye "shall know them by their fruit." (Matt. 7 : 
16.) The fruit of the Holy Spirit is not intended to 
make us believe what men tell us, if it is not revealed 
to us in the Word of God. " For broad is the way 
that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which 
go in thereat." (Matt. 7 : 13.) How few men there 
are living on the earth who believe this, and include 



72 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

themselves in the number who are going down the 
road to destruction. " The spirit of the beast that 
goeth downward." (Eccles. 3 : 21.) " He that com- 
mitteth sin is of the devil, for the devil sinneth from 
the beginning." (1 John 3 : 8.) If we do not believe 
this, and all the Lord has told us about the devil's 
home, is not the devil the author of that unbelief? 
We can gain nothing by permitting him to blind, de- 
ceive, and control us. We should remember that the 
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and it 
is our duty and to our interest to believe all the Lord 
has revealed to us in his Word, for it is given to us 
for our good; and the Lord could make no mistake 
when he tells us w T e must go down to find hell, for 
he created it, and drove the devil down from heaven 
to the earth, and then told us we must go down 
from the outside of the earth we are on, to find the 
prison in which they are to be confined forever. 
Some may think the quotations I have selected to 
prove the points in this book could be changed by 
what is written before and after them; they cannot 
if we compare them to what was said about Christ's 
first coming or any fulfilled prophecy. This world 
must be everlasting if the soul lives forever, and the 
home prepared for the lost is everlasting. For the 
Holy Spirit has ordered the same words used when 
he tells us all God's works are everlasting. Some of 
his works may be changed by fire, and some by de- 
composition, but it remains in another form, and is 
not destroyed, and will be everlasting. He has ere- 



LOCATION OF HELL. 73 

ated the human body from the dust of the earth, and 
to dust it shall return. The Lord has created our 
earthly body, and it is a temporal home for the soul, 
which he tells us will exist forever, and it must be 
the intelligent part of our being. It can be changed 
from good to evil, and the Lord can change it from 
evil to good; and the Lord will change this sin- 
smitten world from its present condition to a sinless 
paradise for spiritual beings that will not be changed 
forever. 

The world will be changed, but it must remain a 
world forever in a re-created state. " For all the 
land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to 
thy seed forever." (Gen. 13 : 15.) 

The descendants of Abraham have not occupied 
that land for many years; but the time will come 
when they will occupy it forever in a recreated state. 
" The Lord did swear by himself that he would mul- 
tiply the seed of Abraham as the stars of heaven, 
and all this land that I have spoken of will I give 
unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever." 
(Ex. 32 : 13.) Abraham and many of his descend- 
ants are in paradise on a visit, and they will return 
to that land when the Lord recreates it, and he will 
recreate them, and make it their everlasting home. 
" That thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, 
which the Lord thy God giveth thee, forever." 
(Deut. 4 : 40.) In this verse the Lord tells them 
how they can prolong their temporal stay on the 
earth, and then tells them he will in time give it to 



74 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

them forever. "And Moses sware on that day, say- 
ing, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden 
shall be thine inheritance and thy children's for- 
ever." (Josh. 14 : 9.) This promise, in God's time, 
must be fulfilled; and if we are God's children, we 
will see it fulfilled, "and dwell in the land that 
the Lord hath given unto you and to your fathers 
for ever and ever." (Jer. 25 : 5.) " Then will I cause 
you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to 
your fathers for ever and ever." (Jer. 7 '. 7.) " And 
the seventh angel sounded; and there were great 
voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this 
world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of 
his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever." 
(Rev. 11:15.) " And there shall be no night there, ' 
and they need no candles, neither light of the sun: 
for the Lord God giveth them light; and they shall 
reign for ever and ever." (Rev. 22 : 5.) " He stood 
and measured the earth; he beheld, and drove asun- 
der the nations ; and the everlasting mountains were 
scattered, the perpetual hills did bow; his ways are 
everlasting." (Hab. 3 : 6.) "The hills melted like 
wax at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth." 
(Psa. 97 : 5.) This will be done at the third coming 
of Christ, to put death under his feet, stop the mul- 
tiplication of Adam's race on the earth, and make 
all things new; and all who are saved are like the 
angels in heaven, then, and the recreated earth will 
be everlasting. 

There is nothing" on the earth that annihilates ere- 



LOCATION OF HELL. 75 

ated matter. Fire causes the rapid decomposition 
of chemicals, but it does not destroy matter. It 
changes what has been drawn together by the laws 
of nature, but the created matter of which it has 
been composed remains in some other form. We 
purify many things we find in the earth with fire. 
It is not consumed; for the gold and the dross re- 
main. We melt sand, and it is changed to glass; the 
earth may be melted like wax and changed to glass; 
that does not consume created matter, or remove the 
foundations of the earth. For the Lord has told us 
they will not be removed forever. All the earth 
produces by the laws of nature is not a new crea- 
tion; it is changing what had been created into 
other forms; all this must decompose or be changed. 
The grain we sow decomposes and produces other 
grain; our body returns to dust, but it will be raised 
a spiritual body that will endure forever. We have 
nothing in the Bible or in the laws of nature that 
would give us any reason to suppose that the cre- 
ated matter of this earth and the air that is all around 
it will ever pass away. And the redeemed will live 
on the earth, and the lost will be sealed up in it, and 
the lake of fire that is now and will then be in it 
will be everlasting. If we wish to live on it, then 
we must fear the Lord in this life, believe what 
he has told us in his Word, and keep his com- 
mandments. For all that is said about the world 
by the Creator of all things must and will be ful- 
filled. 



y6 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

Jacob, in his blessing to Joseph, calls the hills 
" everlasting hills." (Gen. 49 : 26.) 

I think this proves to us the earth that now sur- 
rounds the lake of fire that is in it will be everlast- 
ing walls around it. The fire in the earth could be 
called a lake of fire surrounded by land. "And 
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This 
is the second death." (Rev. 20 : 14.) I find nothing 
in the Bible that would give me any reason to sup- 
pose I had any right to look for another prison or 
lake of fire in which the devil and the lost could be 
confined forever. And all the Bible tells us about 
the home of the lost would be fulfilled if we take the 
lake of fire in this earth and call it the prison in 
which they are to be confined. And I think it is 
our duty to believe it, or give some reason for not 
believing it, TAKEN FROM THE BIBLE. 

What object can the Lord have, or what other 
reason has he given, for keeping the fire burning for 
so many thousands of years if he has no use for it? 
It is of no use to anything that lives on the earth. 
And the Lord has told us that he has prepared a 
place of that kind, and the road that leads to it he 
has told us " is a broad road, and many there be 
that go in thereat." For the god of this world has 
blinded the minds of men in all ages of the world, 
so they could not see or understand what the Lord 
had revealed to them in his Word for their good. 
Some account for the fire in the earth by believing 
a theory that this earth came from the sun in a 



LOCATION OF HELL. 7/ 

melted state, and that the outside has cooled and 
become hard, and the interior of the earth is in a 
melted state yet. That theory conflicts with all the 
Creator has told us about his creating the air, the 
water, and laying of the foundation of the earth, 
and that it was not to be removed forever. And all 
we know of the crust of the earth proves to us that 
it was created in or under water, as there is water 
in all that is created. And if the earth had been 
melted our rocks would not have had so much water 
in them. And the different kinds of rocks we have 
on the earth would have been mixed up, and our 
soil that is worn from the rocks when they were 
new and in a soft state would all be alike; and the 
water would not remain on the surface of the earth, 
or so near it that it is within the reach of man, and 
all that live on the earth. And the law of attrac- 
tion would not permit the world to leave the sun, 
for that law keeps the water on the earth, and when 
water is drawn up in the air by the sun, it returns 
again to the earth, drawn by that law. And the 
size of the sun gives it a power to attract many thou- 
sands of times greater than the earth's attraction, 
and if one world, or all the planets in this system, 
did come from the sun, the law of attraction would 
be gone, and the sun would form a million worlds 
and scatter off in space. I do not see how any one 
can give a reason for believing that theory. 

I would give- all who believe the earth came from 
the sun the advice a father gave his little girl when 



;8 LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

she asked him if the moon was made of green cheese. 
He told her to go and see what the Bible said about 
the creation of the moon. She read what the Lord 
has told us about the creation of all in this system 
of worlds, and returned to her father and told him the 
Lord created the moon before he created the cows; 
therefore the moon could not be made of cheese. 

The Lord tells us he created the earth before he 
created the sun and moon ; therefore, the world 
could not come from the sun if it was created first. 
In the beginning God created the air and the earth. 
That may refer to his beginning to create this earth, 
and the earth may be the first thing created in this 
system of worlds. It would require no more divine 
power to create the earth than it would to turn 
" Lot's wife into a pillar of salt" (Gen. 19 : 26), or 
protect " three men in a furnace of fire exceeding 
hot." (Dan. 3 : 22.) And it would take as much 
power to control the nations of the earth, and make 
them fulfill, or do, all he has told the prophets to 
say that they would do, or to know that Peter would 
deny him thrice, and then know his faith would fail 
not. " Mine hand also hath laid the foundation of 
the earth, and my right hand hath spanned the heav- 
ens." (Isa. 48 : 13.) "Of old thou hast laid the 
foundation of the earth." (Psalms 102 : 25.) "Who 
laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not 
be removed forever." (Prov. 104 : 5.) This makes 
the foundations of the world everlasting, and nothing 
said about the earth coming from the sun. 



LOCATION OF HELL. 79 

The evil spirit persuaded men to reject the preach- 
ing of Christ and his apostles ; and also Martin Lu- 
ther and his co-workers in the Reformation. And he 
persuaded men who claimed to be God's children 
to persecute John Bunyan and thousands of other 
good men, who were led by the spirit of God to do 
what they did. It is the evil spirit that will not in 
this day let men understand the Bible as it is re- 
vealed by its author. He has divided the so-called 
Christian Church up into many branches ; and he 
makes some men believe some of Christ's commands 
are not essential to salvation, and they need not 
obey them. Men should not be governed by any 
spirit that conflicts with or misconstrues the Word of 
God. If there is nothing in the Bible that conflicts 
with what is presented in this book, and if it accords 
with its teachings, what reason can be given for re- 
fusing to believe it, and would any excuse free men 
when they are called before the Judge of all the 
earth ? For he has given us the Bible, and he has 
told us the devil is opposed to it and does not want us 
to understand or believe it. And we are told in his 
Word to watch and pray, for the devil has, and is, 
deceiving many of our race. And the lost would 
warn the living, if they could, not to come to that 
place of torment. And those in heaven would in- 
vite all to come and join that happy throng foreve-r. 
Reader, do it ; for if you refuse or neglect to obey 
the commands of the Lord, who has created and con- 
trols all things, you must spend a never-ending eter- 



8o LOCATION OF HEAVEN AND HELL. 

nity in the fire which is, and will be, in this earth 
forever. For the Lord has revealed it, and he 
changes not, and his word must all be fulfilled. The 
evil spirit may make you believe this is all a hum- 
bug, but that will not change the word of God as to 
the home of the lost. This is not intended to frighten 
men, but it is to show them what salvation is worth 
to them, and what it is to be lost forever. Men can 
gain nothing in this life by serving " the god of this 
world," but eternal torment forever in a future state. 
The Son of God is as willing to save men now as 
he was when he was on the earth. And he can say 
now, as he did then, "Ye would not." At his last 
coming this will change : men will be willing then, 
but he will not. It will pay all men to search the 
Word of God and give it a literal interpretation. 
Believe what is revealed ; obey the commands ; 
" hunger and thirst after righteousness ;" prove to all 
men you have Christ's spirit by your works. Turn 
from "the god of this world" and serve him not. 
Then, at the end of life's journey, you can leave this 
sinful world and ascend to the third heaven, and re- 
turn with Christ at his last coming, to renovate the 
earth, free it from sin, and confine the devil and all 
his works in the earth forever. Reader, where will 
you be then ? 



THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST TO 
MAKE A SACRIFICE FOR SIN. 



The period from Christ's First Coming to his 
Second is and will be fulfilled prophecy. I will call 
his birth in Bethlehem his first coming. For then 
he came in our nature, and was called the " second 
Adam, the Lord from heaven. " 

He was born under the law, and was without sin, 
so he could save his people from their sins. And 
we are told he will be " the first-born among many 
brethren." That coming was an important event in 
the world's history; for as Abraham looked for the 
promised son, so all the generations of men from 
Adam had looked for the Messiah to come "to 
bruise the serpent's head," and permit Satan "to 
bruise his heel." And Abraham told his son Isaac 
when he was preparing to offer him to the Lord for 
a sacrifice that " God would provide a lamb for an 
offering," and that lamb was a substitute for Christ, 
who would come from him, or from his seed. " For in 
thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.'' 
(Gen. 22 : 18.) And all the sacrifices that had been 
offered to the Lord by men (if they offered them as 
the Lord commanded them to do) pointed to that 
coming of Christ, and this coming, and the sacrifice 

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82 THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 

he made, was to be the end of that law. And it 
ended with the overthrow of Jerusalem, and the scat- 
tering of the Jews among all nations. 

Satan must have told Cain to offer " the fruit of 
the ground for an offering unto the Lord." (Gen. 4 : 
3.) For Paul has told us, "without shedding of 
blood is no remission." (Heb. 9 : 22.) And the 
history ol Cain proves he had obeyed Satan, and 
in that way had become his servant, and was con- 
trolled by him, and therefore slew his brother. This 
should be a warning to all who think they have a 
right to change or refuse to believe the Word of 
God. Jesus at his first coming did all the prophets 
had said he would do at that time. And if they 
had not told of his second coming, and what he 
would do then, the Jews would have believed on 
him. For they were looking for the Messiah to 
come, and fulfill that part of prophecy that will be 
fulfilled at his second coming — at which time he 
will come and do all the prophets said he would do 
for the Jews. Jesus said, " This gospel of the king- 
dom shall be preached in all the world for a witness 
unto all nations, and then shall the end come." 
(Matt. 24 : 14.) I think a part of this prophecy is 
fulfilled. The gospel is to be preached to the end 
of the world, to all nations; but Jesus had told his 
disciples of another end that does not refer to the 
end of the world. All the evangelists, in this con- 
nection, tell us that Jesus had been telling the Jews 
that the temple would be thrown down and not one 



THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 83 

stone left on another. " And they asked him, When 
shall these things be ? " And one answer he gave 
them is this: "And when ye shall see Jerusalem 
compassed with armies, then know that the deso- 
lation thereof is nigh." (Luke 21 : 20.) "For these 
be the days of vengeance, that all things which are 
written may be fulfilled." And the scattering of 
the Jews had been plainly written: " And they shall 
fall by the edge of the sword; and shall be led away 
captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trod- 
den down of the Gentiles, until the times of the 
Gentiles be fulfilled." (Luke 21 : 22, 24.) Then 
Jesus goes on and tells them about His last coming, 
and what will be done then. He tells them the time 
of the Gentiles will end, and that before the end of 
the world, or end of the age, all that the prophets 
have told about the history of the Jews, and of Je- 
rusalem and its overthrow, and the scattering of the 
Jews among all nations, has been fulfilled at his 
first coming, or will be before his second coming. 
Jesus knew the Jews would put him to death to save 
the Jewish nation and their religion. But he told 
them his gospel, that they would not believe or re- 
ceive, would be preached in all the world, or to all the 
nations (and it will be to the end of time). But then 
Jesus told them that the end of the temple, Jerusa- 
lem, and the Jewish nation they wanted to preserve, 
would come, and when it came his gospel had been 
preached to all the nations known to them, and in 
which they would be scattered. And that was the end 



84 THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 

of the Jewish dispensation, and the gospel of Christ 
had taken its place. And the Jews have had no 
king or flag around which they could rally, or a 
country they could call their own, from that time to 
this, and they will not till Christ's second coming. 
If we wish to understand prophecy we must under- 
stand the history of the world as it is revealed to us 
by the prophets, and if we review the past it will 
help us to understand the future. There have been 
changes in the past, and there will be in the future. 
The first period in the world's history I will call 
from the creation of man to the Flood. The second 
period of time was from the Flood to the birth of 
Jesus. And the third from his birth to his second 
coming. Nearly all prophecy which was to be ful- 
filled in this dispensation has been fulfilled. And the 
fourth or next change will be the thousand years the 
devil is to be confined, and not permitted to deceive 
men. And the fifth period of time will be from the 
devil's release to the third coming of Christ, to raise 
the dead and make all things new. During that 
time the devil is loosed from his prison, and he will 
deceive men who live on the earth. Then Christ 
will come and confine the devil and all his works 
in everlasting fires forever. That will be the end of 
prophecy, and the end of the multiplication of 
Adam's race; for then the redeemed will be like the 
angels in heaven, not married nor given in marriage. 
Then Jesus can conquer death, and put all enemies 
ynder his feet forever. By this we can see what 



The first coming of christ. 85 

prophecy was to be fulfilled in the time of the Jewish 
sacrifice; and what prophecy will be fulfilled in 
this age of the world; and what will be while the 
devil is confined. And we have some prophecy 
left to be fulfilled after the devil is loosed for a sea- 
son. And all prophecy is to be fulfilled before 
Satan is confined forever, so that he cannot harm 
the redeemed who will live on a re-created earth 
surrounded by a new heaven. 

The prophets had told the Jews what would be 
done by Christ at his first coming. But they were 
more interested in what they had told them about 
his second coming, and they overlooked all they 
had told them about his first coming, as a lamb that 
had been promised would be slain for the remission 
of sin from the fall of man. 

When Jacob blessed his sons he said, " The scep- 
tre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from 
between his feet; until Shiloh come; and unto him 
shall the gathering of the people be." (Gen. 49 : 10.) 
This refers to Christ's first coming. He came then 
to scatter the Jews among all nations, and he must 
come again to gather them on earth. He does not 
mean the redeemed in heaven. He has not done 
that yet. When Christ was born Judah had no 
king, and the sceptre had departed from them, 
and they had no lawgiver, and they were look- 
ing for the Messiah to come. And the angel of 
the Lord told Joseph to " call his name Jesus, for he 
shall save his people from their sins." His birth 



86 THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 

troubled Herod and all Jerusalem, for they supposed 
he was born for a king. And the angel of the Lord 
told Joseph to take the young child into Egypt, for 
Herod would seek to destroy him. And Herod sent 
and slew all the children in Bethlehem, as the 
prophet Jeremiah had said he would. And when 
Herod was dead an angel of the Lord told Joseph 
to take the child and his mother into the land of 
Israel. And he came and dwelt in Nazareth, as the 
prophets had said he would. And the angel of the 
Lord told the shepherds to " Fear not, for unto you 
is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, 
which is Christ the Lord." (Luke 2 : u.) And he 
will be a king at his next coming. And the Holy 
Ghost had told good old Simeon that he should not 
see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ; " and 
he came by the spirit into the temple, and took him 
up in his arms, and blessed God and said, Lord, 
now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, ac- 
cording to thy word, for mine eyes have seen thy 
salvation." (Luke 2 : 26-30.) " And there was with 
the angels a multitude of the heavenly host prais- 
ing God, saying, Glory to God in the highest, 
and on earth peace, good-will to men." (Luke 2:13, 
14.) " Christ came not to send peace, but a sword " 
then. (Matt. 10 : 34.) He will bring peace at his 
next coming to all men. His birth was in a stable ; 
but angels were sent from heaven to introduce him 
to a fallen world. If we read his history from his 
birth to the cross, as we find it recorded by inspired 



tHE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 87 

men who were eye-witnesses to those wonderful 
works, and then remember that he must have done 
a hundred good things where one is recorded, we 
can say with the centurion, " Truly, this man was 
the Son of God" (Mark 15:39), and the second 
Adam from heaven. He had told his apostles about 
his death. Judas was to betray him; he was to be 
raised from the grave the third day. He appeared 
to the apostles, and when he was parted from them 
and ascended up in heaven the angel told them he 
would return in like manner. He proved his divin- 
ity, and proved, by his works and what he said, he 
was a prophet. And the Father called him his son 
and told us to hear him. The prophet " said unto 
them, If ye think good, give me my price, and if not, 
forbear, so they weighed for my son's price thirty 
pieces of silver. And the Lord said unto me, Cast 
unto the potter a goodly price that I was prized at of 
them." (Zech. n : 12, 13.) "Then Judas, who had 
betrayed him, seeing that he was condemned, re- 
pented and returned the thirty pieces of silver to 
the chief priests and elders, saying, I have sinned in 
betraying innocent blood. And they said, What is 
that to us ? see thou to that. And he threw down 
the pieces of silver in the temple and departed; and 
he went and hanged himself." (Matt. 27 : 3, 4, 5.) 
All that the prophets had said would be done to 
the Son of God when he came on the earth was 
as literally fulfilled as that was. Again as to this: 
" And the chief priests, taking the silver pieces, said, 



88 THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 

It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since 
they are the price of blood. And having taken 
counsel, they bought with them the potter's field, as 
a burial-place for strangers. Wherefore that field 
was called the field of blood. And they gave them 
for the potter's field." (Matt. 27 : 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.) 
And again, Christ had said to the prophets, by the 
Holy Spirit : " I gave my back to the smiters, and 
my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid 
not my face from shame and spitting." (Isa. 50 : 6.) 
"Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; 
and others smote him with the palms of their hands." 
(Matt. 26 : 67.) " He keepeth all his bones, notone 
of them is broken." (Psa. 34 : 20.) " They brake 
not his legs." (John 19: 33.) "They pierced my 
hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones, they 
look and stare upon me." (Psa. 22 : 16, 17.) " They 
part my garments among them and cast lots upon 
my vesture." (Psa. 22 : 18.) " The soldiers took 
his garments and made four parts, to every soldier 
a part; the coat was without seam, woven through- 
out, and they cast lots forit." (John 19 : 23.) " They 
gave me also gall for my meat, and in my thirst they 
gave me vinegar to drink." (Psa. 69: 21.) "The 
chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and eld- 
ers, said, If he be the king of Israel, let him now 
come down from the cross and we will believe him." 
(Matt. 27,: 42.) Christ came from the grave, but the 
priests did not believe on him, and they were not 
willing that the people should. "For they gave 



THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 89 

large money unto the soldiers, saying, Say ye, His 
disciples came by night and stole him away while 
we slept. And if this come to the governor's ears, 
we will persuade him and secure you." (Matt. 28 : 

13, HO 

It will be seen by this, and many other references 
that could be made, how literally all this was ful- 
filled in the crucifixion of Christ. This proves the 
Lord can control the devil, and all men who serve 
him, and who are controlled by him. We learn 
from this and all the Jews did to Christ, the power 
which Satan has over men when the Lord permits 
him to use it to control them. "And they said, Let 
his blood be on us and our children." And that 
prayer was answered, and more than six hundred 
years before the overthrow of Jerusalem the Lord 
told the prophets to tell them about it. The Lord 
told Ezekiel to take the hair from his head and di- 
vide it in three parts. He was to burn a third part 
in the city in the days of the siege, and a third part 
he was to smite with a knife; and a third part thou 
shalt scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a 
sword after them. " Thou shalt also take a few in 
number and bind them in thy skirts, and cast them 
in the fire and burn them. Thus saith the Lord 
God: This is Jerusalem. Behold, I, even I, am 
against thee, and I will execute judgment in the 
midst of thee, in the sight of the nations. There- 
fore the fathers shall eat their sons in the midst of 
thee, and the sons shall eat their fathers; and I will 



90 THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 

execute judgment in thee, and the whole remnant 
of thee will I scatter into all the winds. I will not 
spare, neither will I have any pity. A third part of 
thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine; 
and a third part shall fall by the sword, and I will 
scatter a third part into all the winds. I will make 
thee waste and a reproach among the nations that 
are round about thee." This is from the 5th chapter 
of Ezekiel. " And I will sow them among the peo- 
ple, and they shall remember me in far countries; 
and they shall live with their children." (Zech. 10: 
9.) All this is before Christ's second coming. "And 
the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many 
people, as a dew from the Lord. And the remnant 
of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst 
of many people." (Micah. 5 : 7, 8.) They are in all 
parts of the world now. " For I will gather all 
nations against Jerusalem to battle, and the city 
shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women 
ravished." (Zech. 14 : 2.) " For, lo, I will com- 
mand, and I will sift the house of Israel among all 
nations like as corn is sifted in a sieve." (Amos 8: 
9.) The Lord did this. " For the children of Israel 
shall abide many days without a king, and without a 
prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, 
and without ephod. and without teraphim." They 
are without all this yet. " Afterward shall the chil- 
dren of Israel return and seek the Lord their God, 
and David their king; and shall fear the Lord and 
his goodness in the latter days." (Hos. 3 : 4, 5.) 
They will do this at Christ's second coming. 



THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 91 

The Jews were scattered among all nations about 
seventy years after the birth of Christ. They had 
never been scattered in all nations before. They 
are scattered now, and have been from that time to 
this, and will be till the second coming of Christ, 
They will be without a king or a sacrifice until he 
comes to them, and then they will return to him 
with weeping and with supplication. They must 
return to him on this earth, and it must be before 
the earth is made new at the third coming of Christ, 
and the general judgment, and the last resurrection; 
it will be too late to return to Christ then; no time 
to do then what the prophets have told us they will 
do in Jerusalem. Christ will have no time then to 
do for the Jews, and for all the nations of the earth, 
what he has promised to do for them on the earth 
before the end comes. I do not understand how 
men can read in the Bible all the Lord has promised 
to do for the Jews, as a nation, and see how faithful 
he has been to fulfill his promises in the past, and 
then read what the same prophets have told us the 
Lord would do for them in the future on this earth, 
and on the land he gave to their fathers, and believe 
it will or can be fulfilled in a future state and not on 
this earth. 

Christ, at his first coming, is called a lamb, and 
what he did at that coming proves it to be an ap- 
propriate name for him. At his second coming he 
is called a king and the " Prince of Peace " (Isa. 9 : 
6), and that represents what he will do then. At 



C)2 THE FIRST COMING OF CHRIST. 

his third coming he will be a king and the "Lion of 
the tribe of Judah," with all things put under him. 
That includes the devil, sin, and death, with all who 
refuse to be governed by his revealed law, and have 
not had his spirit to guide them in the way of truth. 
" If any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none 
of his " (Rom. 8:9); and it is his spirit that will en- 
able us to understand his Word. 



CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 



"TO BE A KING AND THE PRINCE OF PEACE." 



Christ's second coming will be the next impor- 
tant event in the world's history. We are not to 
know the day or year he will come, but we have un- 
fulfilled prophecy that could not be fulfilled in this 
dispensation, and could not be in a future state; and 
Christ has told us he will come when the fullness of 
the Gentiles comes in and do all he has promised to 
do for the Jewish nation. "And when Jesus was 
taken up into heaven two men in white apparel said, 
Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into 
heaven ? This same Jesus which is taken up from 
you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye 
have seen him go into heaven." (Acts I : u.) When 
Jesus was parted from his disciples and taken up into 
heaven, he was in a human body so he could con- 
verse with men, and the angel was sent to tell them 
he would return in like manner. He was called 
Lord in the Old Testament, and the inspired writers 
tell us he visited the earth in what appeared to be a 
human body, from Adam to the days of Abraham. 

At the request of Abraham he promised to spare 
Sodom if he could find ten righteous men in the 

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94 CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 

city, but they could not be found. Abraham and 
his wife appeared to know the Lord at that time, 
and were not surprised at anything he said to them. 
If a stranger had come and said what the Lord did 
about the promised son and the overthrow of Sodom, 
they would have both been surprised, and wanted 
to know who he was, and who sent him to say and 
do those things. Christ will not come to condemn 
men at his second coming, for all who live on the 
earth then will rejoice, and all the redeemed in 
heaven with the angelic host will shout for joy, for 
they know that the devil is to be confined for a 
thousand years, and that must add to the joys of 
heaven and earth, for all will know the Lord then, 
from the least to the greatest, who live on the earth. 
John, in a vision, saw what would be done on the 
earth before the end of the world, as it is, and it will 
all be done. "And John saw an angel comedown from 
heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a 
great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the 
dragon, that old serpent which is the devil and 
Satan, and bound him a thousand years, and cast 
him into the bottomless pit and shut him up, and 
set a seal upon him that he should deceive the na- 
tions no more till the thousand years should be ful- 
filled. And after that he must be loosed a little 
season." That season may be as long as the time 
from Christ's first to his second coming, for Jesus 
called that time short. And the souls John saw 
were those who had been beheaded for the witness 



CHRIST S SECOND COMING. 95 

of Jesus, and will have part in the first resurrection; 
and they will reign with Christ on the earth a thou- 
sand years. "But the rest of the dead lived not 
again until the thousand years were finished." (Rev. 
20 : 1-5.) His twelve apostles may have part in the 
first resurrection, for Jesus said to them, " When 
the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, 
ye shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve 
tribes of Israel." (Matt. 19 : 28.) They have been 
in heaven over eighteen hundred years, and the 
reign of a thousand years must refer to some other 
time. They may come with Christ and judge the 
twelve tribes of Israel, who live on the earth, for a 
thousand years after Christ's second coming. "And 
I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my father has ap- 
pointed unto me, that ye may eat and drink at my 
table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the 
twelve tribes of Israel." (Luke 22 : 29, 30.) That 
may be on this earth. I would not suppose the re- 
deemed in heaven would want judging in tribes, and 
eat and drink at a table called Christ's table. 
" Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; 
and unto them that look for him shall he appear the 
SECOND time without sin unto salvation." (Heb. 9 : 
28.) In this Paul teaches us that Christ will come 
the second time. He has not come yet; and at his 
third and last coming he will not give salvation to 
men. He comes then to judge them for what has 
been done. " I will laugh at your calamity, I will 
mock when your fear cometh." (Prov. 1 : 26.) Christ 



g6 CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 

will give salvation to all who live on the earth when 
he confines the devil at his second coming. This 
could not refer to his third coming, for then all who 
have salvation will be saved, and all who have not 
will be lost. And if it refers to their judging the 
twelve tribes of Israel on a re-created earth, they 
would judge them then forever. But we are taught 
by all the prophets that all these things will be ful- 
filled in the history of the world before the end of 
our race comes. 

" And it shall come to pass when ye be multiplied 
and increased in the land, in those days, saith the 
Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the cove- 
nant of the Lord; neither shall it come to mind, 
neither shall they remember it, neither shall they 
visit it, neither shall that be done any more." This 
will be done on the earth before the end comes. 
" At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne 
of the Lord ; and all nations shall be gathered unto 
it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem ; neither 
shall they walk any more after the imagination of 
their evil heart. In those days the house of Judah 
shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall 
come together out of the land of the north, to the 
land that I have given for an inheritance unto your 
fathers." (Jer. 3 : 16, 17, 18.) This has not been 
fulfilled. They do not come from heaven, or go to 
heaven, but they come from the land in which they 
are scattered, to the land the Lord had given to 
their fathers, and he has promised to give it to their 



CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. ■ 9? 

children. " For I will take you from among the 
heathen and gather you out of all countries, and will 
bring you into your own land." This could not be 
done at Christ's last coming. 

" A new heart also will I give you, and a new 
spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the 
stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a 
heart of flesh." The Lord will not give them a heart 
of flesh in heaven, or after the resurrection. " And I 
will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk 
in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments and 
do them. And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave 
to your fathers ; and ye shall be my people, and I 
will be your God." (Ezek. 36 : 26, 27, 28.) " And 
in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven 
set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed; 
and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, 
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these 
kingdoms, and it shall stand forever." Christ is the 
stone cut out of the mountain without hands. He is 
a king, and will have a kingdom on this earth for 
ever. (Dan. 2 : 44.) 

Christ's kingdom was set up in the hearts of men 
at his first coming. And it will be set up in Jerusa- 
lem, and in the hearts of all who live on the earth, 
at his second coming. And when the devil is re- 
leased he will not break down that kingdom. And 
at the end of the world it will be established forever 
in the new Jerusalem, that will come down from 
heaven, on a re-created earth purified by fire, and 



98 CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 

surrounded by a new heaven. " And I saw a new 
heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the 
first earth were passed away, and there was no more 
sea." (Rev. 21:1.) " And I saw, as it were, a sea 
of glass mingled with fire, and them that had gotten 
the victory over the beast stand on the sea of glass, 
having the harps of God. And they sing the song 
of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the 
Lamb." (Rev. 15:2, 3.) 

This will be done after the third coming of Christ, 
and I quote it here to show that the prophecy to be 
fulfilled at the second coming of Christ could not be 
fulfilled when the world is in that state, and the 
devil will not be loosed to deceive the nations of the 
earth after that time. I mean after the third coming 
of Christ. And at Christ's second coming "he will 
return unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jeru- 
salem; and Jerusalem shall be called, A city of truth; 
and the mountain of the Lord of hosts, The holy 
mountain. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall 
yet old men and old women dwell in the streets 
of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand 
for very age. And the streets of the city shall be full 
of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof" 
(Zech. 8: 3, 4, 5), and must refer to Christ's second 
coming, for he will return unto Zion and dwell in 
Jerusalem. He calls the mountains his, and calls 
them holy. It could not be the new world, for he 
has told us the old and the young will be in the 
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CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 99 

yet. " Thus saith the Lord of hosts: If it be mar- 
vellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in 
these days, should it also be marvellous in mine 
eyes ? saith the Lord of hosts. The Lord will save 
his people from the east country, and from the 
west country, and I will bring them, and they shall 
dwell in the midst of Jerusalem ; and they shall be 
my people, and I will be their God in truth and in 
righteousness." (Zech. 8 : 6, 7, 8.) 

This has not been done. But the Lord has told 
us he will do it; and he will bring them from the 
east and west country, that is, not from heaven. 
And he does not take them to heaven, for he takes 
them to Jerusalem, and he will be their God. " And 
I will bring the third part through the fire, and I 
will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them 
as gold is tried; they shall call on my name, and I 
will hear them; I will say, It is my people: and they 
shall say, The Lord is my God." (Zech. 13:9.) 
They have not done that yet. "The Lord's house 
shall be established in the top of the mountain, and 
all nations shall flow unto it. And many people shall 
say, Let us go up to the house of the God of Jacob, 
and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk 
in his paths, for out of Zion shall go forth the law 
and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. And he 
shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke 
many people, and they shall beat their swords into 
ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; 
nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither 



IOO CHRIST S SECOND COMING. 

shall they learn war any more." (Isa. 2 : 3, 4.) The 
Lord speaks to men on the earth. They have swords 
and spears; they go up to Jerusalem to learn the 
ways of the Lord; they want plows, and will not 
learn war any more in the thousand years the devil 
is confined. And the Lord will judge among other 
nations, and rebuke many people. This could not 
be done in heaven. And this state of things on the 
earth will have an end, for at the end of the world 
men will be very wicked. After Satan is loosed out 
of his prison, and before the end of the world comes, 
" Satan will gather together to battle a large army, 
the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And 
they went up on the breadth of the earth, and com- 
passed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved 
city; and fire came down from God out of heaven, 
and devoured them." And at the end of the world, 
the devil who deceived them, or persuaded them to 
go and make war on Jerusalem, will be " cast into 
the lake of fire and brimstone, and he shall be tor- 
mented for ever and ever." (Rev. 20 : 8, 9, 10.) 

This is the devil's second confinement. The first 
was for a thousand years. It is evident it will take 
thousands of years to fulfill the prophecy in those 
few verses. The prophets record events that will 
take place, and do not tell us how long a time it 
will be between the events. We can see what the 
devil has persuaded men to do; and when he is con- 
fined men do not learn war; and when he is loosed 
from his prison, men engage in war again. Zecha- 



I 



CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. IOI 

riah tells us another army will go to mal^e war on 
Jerusalem after the release of the devil. For it has 
not been done, and could not now, for there is no 
city worth taking in that land now. He first tells us 
what will be done while the .devil is confined. " And 
it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out 
from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, 
and half of them toward the hinder sea; in summer 
and winter shall it be. And the Lord shall be king 
over all the earth; in that day shall there be one 
Lord, and his name one." There is living water and 
sea on the earth then, and it must be before the end 
of the world. "All the land shall be turned as a plain 
south of Jerusalem, and it shall be lifted up and 
inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto 
the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and 
from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's wine- 
presses. And men shall dwell in it, and there shall 
be no more utter destruction, but Jerusalem shall be 
safely inhabited." (Zech. 14:8,9, 10, 1 1.) 

From this we learn that Jerusalem will be rebuilt, 
and will not be overthrown again until the end of 
the world. And then the new Jerusalem that will 
come down from heaven will take its place and stand 
forever. In the same chapter we are told what the 
Lord will do with an army that comes to make war 
on Jerusalem after the release of the devil: "And 
this shall be the plague wherewith the Lord will 
smite all the people that have fought against Jeru- 
salem: their flesh shall consume away while they 



102 CHRIST S SECOND COMING. 

stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume 
away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume 
away in their mouth. 

"And so shall be the plague of the horse, of the 
mule, of the camel, and of the ass, and of all the 
beasts that shall be in these tents, as this plague." 
(Zech. 14:12-15.) The verses following tell us 
what the Lord w r ill do with the nations that will 
make war on Jerusalem if they do not go up to Jeru- 
salem once a year to "worship the King, the Lord 
of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles. And 
it shall be that whoso will not come up of all the 
families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the 
King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them shall be 
no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up, and 
come not, that have no rain, there shall be the 
plague wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen 
that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. 
This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the 
punishment of all nations that come not up to keep 
the feast of tabernacles. In that day shall there be 
upon the bells of the horses HOLINESS UNTO THE 
LORD, and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like 
the bowls before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jeru- 
salem, and in Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord 
of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and 
take of them, and seethe therein; and in that day 
there shall be no more the Canaanite in the house 
of the Lord of hosts." (Zech. 14 : 16, 17, 19, 20, 21.) 
The Lord is king in Jerusalem, then the devil is at 



Christ's second coming. 103 

liberty and is deceiving the nations of the earth, and 
the Lord deprives them of rain and sends a plague 
among them to make them worship him. The Lord 
will do this for their good, or afflict them to make 
them worship him and be saved. 

The first two verses in this chapter were fulfilled 
in the overthrow of Jerusalem by the army gathered 
from the Roman Empire, and that army was from 
all nations then. If the first two verses had a literal 
fulfillment, what reason can we give for not believ- 
ing the rest of the chapter will have ? It tells us 
what will be done in Jerusalem after the crucifixion 
of Christ, and what will be done at his second com- 
ing, and what will be done after the devil is loosed 
for a season. It covers a long period of time in the 
world's history, and it gives us a key to unlock the 
book of prophecy by giving us a history of the differ- 
ent changes through which our fallen race must pass 
before and after the end of the world, or the end of 
our race in this human form. " I will bring forth 
my servant the BRANCH. For behold, the stone that 
I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone shall be 
seven eyes; behold, I will engrave the graving 
thereof, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will remove 
the iniquity of that land in one day. In that day, 
saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his 
neighbor under the vine and under the fig-tree. " 
(Zech. 3 : 9, 10.) 

That has not been fulfilled yet, but it will be, and 
cannot be at Christ's last coming, for then he comes 



104 CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 

to judge all who live on the earth then. "As a 
shepherd seeketh out his flock that are scattered, so 
will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out 
of all places where they have been scattered in the 
cloudy and dark days. (The Jews have had many 
cloudy days since Christ's first coming.) And I 
will bring them out from the people and gather 
them from the countries, and will bring them to 
their own land, and feed them upon the mountains 
of Israel, by the rivers, and in all the inhabited 
places of the country. I will feed them in good pas- 
ture upon the high mountains of Israel. I will feed 
my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith 
the Lord God. I will seek that which was lost, and 
bring again that which was driven away; and I will 
bind up that which was sick. Therefore will I save 
my flock, and they shall no more be a prey. And I 
will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall 
feed them, even my servant David; he shall feed 
them, and he shall be their shepherd." (Ezek. 34 : 
12-23.) The Lord has scattered his people, and he 
has promised to bring them from among the people 
and feed them on the mountains of Israel, and in all 
the inhabited places of that country; and David may 
have part in the first resurrection, and he may feed 
them or help rule over them while Satan is bound, 
or it may refer to Christ. This does not refer to the 
Jews in heaven coming back in a spiritual body on 
a re-created earth; and it does not refer to taking the 
Jews from the earth to heaven, for he brings them 



Christ's second coming. 105 

from the countries in which he has scattered them 
and takes them to the land of Israel. And it does 
not refer to a spiritual birth of the soul, for "thus, 
saith the Lord of hosts, Again in this place, which 
is desolate without man and without beast, and in 
all the cities thereof shall be a habitation of shep- 
herds causing their flocks to lie down. In the cities 
of the mountains, in the cities of the vale, and in the 
cities of the south, and in the land of Benjamin, and 
in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of 
Judah, shall the flocks pass again under the hands 
of him that telleth them, saith the Lord. Behold, 
the days come, saith the Lord, that I will perform 
that good thing which I have promised unto the 
house of Israel, and to the house of Judah. In those 
days, and at that time, will I cause the branch of 
righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall 
execute judgment and righteousness in the land." 
That branch is Christ at his second coming. " In 
those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall 
dwell safely; and this is the name wherewith she 
shall be called, The Lord our Righteousness. 
For thus saith the Lord, David shall never want a 
man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel." 
(Jer. 33 : 12-17.) Christ will then commence his 
reign as a king. 

And this could not be done on a re-created earth 
or world. For we are not told that the animal cre- 
ation will be raised from the dead and given a spir- 
itual body and live forever on a new earth. This 



106 Christ's second coming. 

" Branch of Righteousness " that shall execute judg- 
ment in Jerusalem at that time is Christ. And the 
prophet is telling us what will be in that country at 
that time. And he has told us there will be shep- 
herds causing their flocks to lie down in all that 
country, that has been barren for a long time. And 
Christ said, " I will perform that good thing which 
I have promised to the house of Israel, and to the 
house of Judah." It is not promised to all nations 
on the earth, but is confined to the land the Lord 
gave to the descendants of Abraham, and does not 
include all the earth. But the earth will all be in- 
habited then, for the nations of the earth at that time 
will come to Jerusalem to worship the Lord of Hosts. 
" At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the 
God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be 
my people. The Lord hath appeared of old unto 
me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an ever- 
lasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I 
drawn thee. Again I will build thee, and thou shalt 
be built: virgin of Israel, thou shalt again be 
adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the 
dances of them that make merry." This is not in 
heaven, for he said, " Thou shalt yet plant vines 
upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall 
plant, and shall eat them as common things. For 
there shall be a day that the watchman upon the 
Mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up 
to Zion unto the Lord our God. For thus saith the 
Lord: Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout 



Christ's second coming. 107 

among the chief of the nations; publish ye, praise 
ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant 
of Israel ! Behold, I will bring them from the north 
country, and gather them from the coasts of the 
earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the 
woman with child and her that travaileth with child 
together: a great company shall return thither. 
They shall come with weeping, and with supplica- 
tions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by 
the rivers of waters in a strait way wherein they 
shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and 
Ephraim is my first-born. Hear the word of the 
Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar 
off, and say, He that scattereth Israel will gather 
him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock. 
For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and ransomed 
him from the hand of him that was stronger than he 
(meaning the evil spirit). Therefore they shall come 
and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to- 
gether to the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and 
for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock 
and of the herd; and their soul shall be as a watered 
garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all. 
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both 
young men and old together: for I will turn their 
mourning into joy, and I will comfort them, and 
make them rejoice from their sorrow." (Jer. 31 : I— 13.) 
This promise is made to the Jews by the Lord of 
hosts. It has not been fulfilled yet, and it could not 
be fulfilled after the end of the world; but it will be 



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fulfilled while the devil is confined and Christ is 
King over the earth. Men are in a body of flesh 
and blood then; the virgin, young men, and old men 
will rejoice together in the dance. And how can all 
nations declare it to the isles of the sea while they 
refuse to believe it ? And thus saith the Lord to 
Israel, " I will gather the remnant of my flock out 
of all countries whither I have driven them, and will 
bring them again to their folds: and they shall be 
fruitful and increase (not in heaven); and I will set 
up shepherds over them which shall feed them: and 
they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither 
shall they be lacking, saith the Lord. Behold, the 
days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto 
David a righteous branch, and a king shall reign and 
prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in 
the earth. In his days Judah shall be saved, and 
Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name where- 
by he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUS- 
NESS. Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the 
Lord, that they shall no more say, The Lord liveth 
which brought up the children of Israel out of the 
land of Egypt; but, The Lord liveth which brought 
up and which led the seed of the house of Israel 
out of the north country, and from all countries 
whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in 
their own land." (Jer. 23 : 3-8.) 

Their deliverance from Egypt did fulfill prophecy; 
and to fulfill prophecy they must return to their own 
land, and worship the God of their fathers, and be- 



Christ's second coming. 109 

lieve on his Son. I do not see how we can misun- 
derstand this prophecy. For the Lord has promised 
to gather his people Israel from all the countries in 
which they are scattered, to the land he gave to their 
fathers. And Christ is to be a King in the place of 
David in Judah, and he shall reign and prosper and 
execute judgment. This is not in heaven, or on a 
new earth, and it must be done before the end of the 
world and the last resurrection. " Rejoice ye with 
Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: 
rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her. 
For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace 
to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like 
a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be 
borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her 
knees. As one whom his mother comforteth, so will 
I comfort you: and ye shall be comforted in Jerusa- 
lem. " (Isa. 66 : 10, 12, 13.) 

The Jews have not been comforted in Jerusalem 
since the death and resurrection of Christ. How 
can they be a nation without a king ? The Lord has 
promised to send them a king from heaven, and told 
them his name. The Jews believe Christ will come 
to be a king; what reason can we give for not be- 
lieving it ? " Therefore thus saith the Lord God : 
Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and 
have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and 
will be jealous for my holy name. After they have 
borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby 
they have trespassed against me." They are doing 



IIO CHRIST S SECOND COMING. 

that now. And then, " When I have brought them 
again from the people, and gathered them out of 
their enemies' land, and am sanctified in them in the 
sight of many nations, then shall they know that I 
am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led 
into captivity among the heathen; but I have gath- 
ered them up into their own land, and have left none 
of them any more there. Neither will I hide my face 
anymore from them, for I have poured out my spirit 
upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God." (Ezek. 
39 : 25-29.) 

The Lord speaks to us again, saying, " Behold I 
have given him for a witness to the people, a leader 
and commander to the people. For ye shall go out 
with joy, and be led forth with peace; the mountains 
and the hills shall break forth before you into sing- 
ing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their 
hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir- 
tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myr- 
tle-tree, and it shall be to the Lord for a name, for 
an everlasting sign, that shall not be cut off." ( Isa. 
55 : 4, 12, 13.) The Lord will come to be a leader 
and commander to his people, and the devil will be 
confined and sealed up in the bottomless pit; and 
then the earth will not bring forth the thorn and the 
brier, for the curse is removed till the devil is re- 
leased again. And all nations will praise the Lord 
for removing from the earth, for a time, sin and its 
curse. So the men who live then can see what sin 
has cost Adam's race. And the Jews will not forget 



CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. Ill 

what the Lord has done for them, and what he will 
teach them, when the devil is confined and Christ is 
their king ; they will remember it to the end of the 
world, and then the devil will be confined forever. 

" Thus saith the Lord God, Behold I will take the 
children of Israel from among the heathen, whither 
they be gone, and will gather them on every side, 
and bring them into their own land. And I will 
make them one nation in the land upon the mount- 
ains of Israel ; and one king shall be king to them 
all, and they shall be no more two nations, neither 
shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more 
at all. Neither shall they defile themselves any 
more with their idols, nor with their detestable things 
nor with any of their transgressions ; but I will save 
them out of all their dw r elling-places wherein they 
have sinned, and will cleanse them, so shall they be 
my people, and I will be their God. And David my 
servant shall be king over them ; and they all shall 
have one shepherd." They had been two nations 
from Solomon's death to Christ; and no nation since 
that time. "They shall also walk in my judgments 
and observe my statues, and do them." They have 
not done that. " And they shall dwell in the land 
that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein 
your fathers have dwelt, and they shall dwell therein, 
even they, and their children, and their children's 
children forever ; and my servant David shall be 
their prince forever." This will begin at Christ's 
second coming, who is typified under the name of 



112 CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 

David. " I will make a covenant of peace with them ; 
it shall be an everlasting covenant with them ; and 
I will place them and multiply them, and will set my 
sanctuary in the midst of them forevermore." And 
again thus saith the Lord: " My tabernacle also shall 
be with them, yea, I will be their God, and they shall 
be my people. And the heathen shall know that I 
the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall 
be in the midst of them forevermore/' (Ezek. 37 : 
21-28.) 

The Lord has told us in this that he will restore 
Israel to their native land forever, but he does it 
while they have children, and while the heathen 
nations are round about them ; and they will dwell 
in the land the Lord promised to Abraham and his 
seed, for. an everlasting possession. This will be 
done many years before the end comes, and the race 
of Adam ceases to multiply on the earth. " Behold, 
I will gather them out of all countries whither I have 
driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in 
great Avrath ; and I will bring them again unto this 
place ; and I will cause them to dwell safely. And 
they shall be my people, and I will be their God. 
And I will give them one heart, and one way, that 
they may fear me forever, for the good of them, and 
of their children after them. And I will make an 
everlasting covenant with them to do them good ; 
but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall 
not depart from me, yea, I will rejoice over them to 
do them good, and I will plant them in this land 



CHRIST S SECOND COMING. 113 

assuredly with my whole heart, and with my whole 
soul. For thus saith the Lord, Like as I have brought 
all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring 
upon them all the good that I have promised them. ,, 
( Jer. 32 : 37-42.) Why not believe this ? For, " Be- 
hold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make 
a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with 
the house of Judah." And the Lord will do it for all 
who live at that time. " Not according to the cove- 
nant that I made with their fathers in the day that 
I took them by the hand to bring them out of the 
land of Egypt, which my covenant they brake, al- 
though I was a husband unto them, saith the Lord. 
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with 
the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord: 
I will put my law in their inward parts, and write 
it in their hearts, and will be their God, and they 
shall be my people (the Lord has not done this yet), 
and they shall teach no more every man his neigh- 
bor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the 
Lord, for they shall all know me, from the least of 
them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord, for 
I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember 
their sin no more." (Jer. 31 : 31—34.) 

This promise has not been fulfilled to the Jewish 
nation. This new covenant was offered them by 
Christ when he first came, to instruct and bless them. 
They would not receive him, or his Spirit, or the new 
covenant, or new birth, and have not yet. But when 
they do receive it, as it is promised, they will all re- 



114 CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 

ceive it, from the least to the greatest of them, for all 
shall know the Lord, and be by him forgiven, and he 
will remember their sin no more. Preaching Christ's 
gospel will never do this while the devil is at liberty 
to deceive them; but when the devil is sealed up in the 
bottomless pit for a thousand years; and when Christ 
comes to be a king over them — as he has promised 
he would be — they will receive him, believe on him, 
and receive the blessing he has promised them in 
this life as a nation, and all he has promised in a 
future state. They are not offering the sacrifice 
offered by their fathers, or receiving and believing 
on the sacrifice made by Christ for them, for they 
have not complied with the conditions demanded by 
Christ, before he could forgive their sins, give them 
his Spirit, and write his law in their hearts, and they 
receive his new covenant. Not according to the 
covenant he made with their fathers, for they did not 
obey that law or keep that covenant, and they are 
not doing it to this day. They are not keeping the 
old or new covenant now, and have not since Christ's 
death; again: "And speak unto him, saying, Thus 
speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, Behold the man 
whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up 
out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the 
Lord. Even he shall build the temple of the Lord, 
and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule 
upon his throne, and he shall be a priest upon his 
throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between 
them both." (Zech. 6 : 12, 13.) 



CHRIST S SECOND COMING. 115 

This prophecy does not refer to their return from 
Babylon, for they had not been driven in all coun- 
tries then; and the Lord did not give them one heart 
and one way then, and their children after them, and 
the covenant he made with them then, he did not 
call an everlasting covenant, and he did not put his 
fear into their hearts and he has not put his fear in 
the hearts of their children after them, and the Lord 
did not bring on them all the good he has promised 
them, and the Lord told them that they broke the 
covenant he made with their fathers, and he had 
been a husband to them, and the new covenant he 
promised to make with them was to put his law in 
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts, and 
he will be their God, and they shall be his people. 
The Lord has not done that for them yet, and they 
do not all know the Lord yet; but they will at 
Christ's second coming. Then the prophet calls 
Christ the man, and his name is The Branch, he 
will grow up out of his place, and he shall build the 
temple of the Lord, and he shall rule on his throne; 
and the counsel of peace shall be between them both 
(him and his people). " And I will rebuke the de- 
vourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the 
fruits of your ground; neither shall your vines cast 
her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord 
of hosts; and all nations shall call you blessed; for 
ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of 
hosts." (Mai. 3 MI, 12.) 

That prophecy was written 397 years before Christ's 



n6 Christ's second coming. 

first coming, and it has not been fulfilled yet; and 
all prophecy must be fulfilled, and the Jews had no 
prophet from that time till Christ came. Again he 
has said: " In that day shall the Lord defend the in- 
habitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among 
them at that day shall be as David; and the house 
of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord, 
before them. And it shall come to pass in that day 
that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come 
against Jerusalem. And I will pour upon the house 
of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the 
spirit of grace and of supplications; and they shall 
look upon me whom they have pierced, and they 
shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his only 
son, and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is 
in bitterness for his first born. In that day shall 
there be a great mourning in Jerusalem/' (Zech. 
12 : 8-1 1.) In that day Christ will belong to the 
house of David and will be as God, and David as 
the angel of the Lord. In that day sin remains on 
the earth, for the Lord will destroy all the nations 
that come against Jerusalem. And the Jews will 
mourn when they look on Christ, and know that 
their fathers did pierce and crucify the son of God. 
"And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will 
save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them again 
to place them, for I have mercy upon them, and they 
shall be as though I had not cast them off, for I am 
the Lord their God, and will hear them. I will hiss 
for them, and gather them, for I have redeemed 



CttRIST*S SECOND COMING. 11'/ 

them, and they shall increase as they have increased. 
I will bring them again also out of the land of 
Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria, and I will 
bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon, and 
place shall not be found for them." (Zech. 10 : 6, 8, 10.) 
" Another angel said unto him, Run, speak to this 
young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as 
towns without walls for the multitude of men and 
cattle therein. Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest 
with the daughter of Babylon." 

That has not been done in Jerusalem yet, but it 
must be before the end comes, for they have cattle 
and a multitude of men, not like angels, as they will 
be in the new creation. " For thus saith the Lord 
of hosts : After the glory hath he sent me unto the 
nations which spoiled you, for he that toucheth you 
toucheth the apple of his eye. For, behold I will 
shake my hand upon them, and they shall be a spoil 
to their servants; and ye shall know that the Lord 
of hosts has sent me." That U ME" means Christ. 
" Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion, for lo, I come, 
and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord. 
And many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that 
day, and shall be my people. And the Lord shall 
inherit Judah, his portion in the holy land, and shall 
choose Jerusalem again. Be silent, all flesh, be- 
fore the Lord, for he is raised up out of his holy 
habitation." (Zech. 2:4-13.) The son of God is 
telling the Jews what he will do for them in the lat- 
ter days on the earth, and he has not done this good 



ii8 Christ's second coming. 

thing for them in Jerusalem yet. His call is to all 
of the Jews, and he tells them he will come and 
dwell in the midst of them, and deliver them from 
the power of the devil, and from all the nations 
in which he has scattered them. " For thus saith the 
Lord of hosts: Yet once it is a little while, and I 
will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, 
and the dry land. And I will shake all nations, and 
the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fni 
this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The 
silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord 
of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be 
greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts, 
and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of 
hosts." (Hag. 2 : 6-9.) 

The Lord will build another temple in the place 
of the one that was thrown down. But it is not the 
temple that will come down from heaven at Christ's 
third coming to make all things new. For the sil- 
ver and gold are his, and he will use it in building 
the temple he has been telling us about, and calls it 
a house that he will fill w T ith his glory, and he will 
give his peace to that place. That could not be done 
at Christ's last coming; but it will all be done at his 
second coming. That prophecy was written five hun- 
dred and twenty years before Christ, and it was not 
done in the temple then standing. " Then thou 
shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall 
fear and be enlarged; because the abundance of the 
sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the 



Christ's second coming. 119 

Gentiles shall come unto thee. All the flocks of 
Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the 
rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee; they shall 
come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will 
glorify the house of my glory. Who are these that 
fly as a cloud, and as the dov^s to their windows ? 
Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of 
Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver 
and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord 
thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel because he 
hath glorified thee. And the sons of strangers shall 
build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto 
thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favor 
have I had mercy on thee. Therefore thy gates shall 
be open continually: they shall not be shut day nor 
night, that men may bring unto thee the forces of 
the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought." 
The prophet calls them men, not angels, or men 
with a spiritual body. " For the nation and king- 
dom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those 
nations shall be utterly wasted. The glory of Leb- 
anon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, 
and the box together, to beautify the place of my 
sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet 
glorious. The sons also of them that afflicted thee 
shall come bending unto thee; and all they that 
despised thee shall bow themselves down at the 
soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city 
of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. " 
(Isa. 60 : 5-14.) 



120 CHRIST S SECOND COMING. 

This will all be done in Jerusalem at the SECOND 
COMING OF CHRIST. When the devil is confined 
and all nations will be converted to Christ, Jerusa- 
lem and the temple will be built up, and the sons of 
strangers will help do it, and all nations and kings 
will serve them, for the Lord will be king over them, 
the Holy One of Israel. "And there shall come 
forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a BRANCH 
shall grow out of his roots. And Righteousness shall 
be the girdle of his loins, and Faithfulness the girdle 
of his reins. The wolf also shall dwell with the 
lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid, 
and the calf and the young lion and the fatling to- 
gether, and a little child shall lead them. And the 
cow and the bear shall feed, their young ones shall 
lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like 
the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the 
hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his 
hand on the cockatrice's den. They shall not hurt 
nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth 
shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the 
waters cover the sea. And in that day there shall 
be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of 
the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek; and his 
rest shall be glorious." (Isa. n : I, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.) 

The gospel and spirit of Christ have made a great 
change in some men. But it has not changed the 
nature of the lion, wolf, and leopard. The only way 
to make all that live on the earth good is to remove 
from the earth the author of all that is evil. The 



CHRIST'S SECOND COMING, 121 

devil is the author of all that is evil in man and in 
all the animal creation. And the devil is the enemy 
who sowed the tares in the wheat. When Adam 
obeyed Satan the ground did bring forth thorns and 
thistles; and from the fall of Adam to the present 
time the earth, and all who live on it, have been con- 
trolled more or less by the devil, the author of all 
evil. Then if the old serpent, or Satan, was sealed 
up in a bottomless pit so he could not deceive and 
control anything that lives on the earth for a thou- 
sand years, then there could be no evil on the earth. 
When the legion of devils went out of the man who 
lived in the mountains and in the tombs, he was 
clothed and in his right mind. Jesus made the 
change in that man, and he can make the change in 
all created things in the same way; and the Lord 
will do it, for he has told the prophets to tell us he 
would do it. And at that time he will make the 
same change in men who live on the earth, and this 
must all be done before the end of the world. He 
did not at his first coming free the Jews from the 
control of the evil spirit as a nation ; he has not done 
it yet. But Paul has told us, " All Israel shall be 
saved." (Rom. n : 26.) He did not intend for us 
to understand that all the Jews who lived then, and 
all who would live from that time to Christ's second 
coming, would be saved. But all who live on the 
earth when he comes to confine the author of sin, 
they shall and will all be saved. That is the only 
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evil spirit of the power he has to control and deceive 
men, and blindness will depart from Israel. " Shall 
the earth be made to bring forth in one day, or shall 
a nation be born at once ?" (Isa. 66 : 8.) This will 
be done. Remove the cause of evil, and you will re- 
move the power sin has over men and all creation. 
And -we are told that Christ will " set up an ensign 
for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of 
Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah 
from the four corners of the earth. The envy also 
of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah 
shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and 
Judah shall not vex Ephraim." (Isa. n : 12, 13.) 

This has not been done and will not be done until 
the author of that envy is removed from the minds 
of men. The Lord has promised to do it, and he 
will do it even if all men refuse to believe it. Is 
anything too hard for the Lord ? We answer, No. 
And all this must be done before the end of the 
world, for then the devil will be confined forever. 

" The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and 
the lion shall eat straw like the bullock, and the dust 
shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt 
nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the 
Lord." (Isa. 65 : 25.) "And they shall bring all 
your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of 
all nations, upon horses, and in chariots, and in lit- 
ters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my 
holy- mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the chil- 
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the house of the Lord." (Isa. 66 : 20.) Men in a 
spiritual body after the last resurrection will not be 
taken to Jerusalem in that way. Christ at his first 
coming did every little thing the prophets had said 
he would do. Can he overlook all this at his second 
coming ? The fulfillment of prophecy in the past 
proves that all the rest of God's promises will be 
fulfilled. " And he said unto Abram, Know, of a 
surety, that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land 
that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they 
shall afflict them four hundred years. And also that 
nation whom they shall serve will I judge; and 
afterward shall they come out with great substance." 
(Gen. 15 : 13, 14.) 

This had a literal fulfillment, and when we read 
the account given of its fulfillment, we must admit 
the Lord is faithful to do all he has promised, and 
terrible in the execution of his judgments. "Now 
the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy 
country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's 
house, unto a land that I will shew thee; and I will 
make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and 
make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing; 
and I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him 
that curseth thee, and in thee shall all families of the 
earth be blessed." (Gen. 12 : 1-3.) This promise 
was made to Abram 3,810 years ago; the promise is 
to those who live on the earth at Christ's second 
coming, and not to the dead; and all the families of 
the earth have not been blessed in Christ or in 



124 Christ's second coming. 

Abram yet, but they will be when the devil is bound 
and sealed up in prison for a thousand years. All 
those living at that time will be blessed by Christ at 
his second corning, in this life, and in a future state. 
" In that day shall this song be sung in the land of 
Judah: We have a strong city; salvation will God 
appoint for walls and bulwarks. Open ye the gates, 
that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth 
may enter in." (Isa. 26 : I, 2.) After the devil is 
loosed for a season there will be unrighteous nations 
that will not be permitted to come into Jerusalem, 
and they will make war on the city; but they will 
not take it, for that city and nation will fear the Lord, 
and be protected by him, from the restoration to the 
end of the world. " And in that day will I make a 
covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and 
with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things 
of the ground; and I will break the bow and the 
sword and the battle out of the earth, and I w T ill make 
them to lie down safely." (Hos. 2 : 18.) While the 
devil is confined the wild beasts will harm no one, 
and all can lie down safely. 

Peter in his sermon to the Jews said: " David was 
a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an 
oath to him that of the fruit of his loins, according 
to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his 
throne, he, seeing this before, spake of the resur- 
rection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, 
neither his flesh did see corruption." (Acts 2 : 30, 31.) 
Christ's body was not left in the grave, and his soul 



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was not left on or in this earth, the devil's home, for 
he went to paradise, returned to the earth, raised his 
body from the grave, and then ascended to his Father; 
and he has not been a king on David's throne yet, 
but at his second coming he will be. "When the 
fullness of the Gentiles comes in, all Israel shall be 
saved; as it is written: There shall come out of Zion 
the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from 
Jacob. For this is my covenant unto them, when I 
shall take away their sins." (Rom. 1 1 : 26, 27.) The 
Lord has not taken away their sins yet, but he will 
take away the sins of all who live at his next com- 
ing. " But this man, after he had offered one sacri- 
fice for sin forever, sat down on the right hand of 
God. From henceforth expecting till his enemies 
be made his footstool." (Heb. 10 : 12, 13.) The Lord 
is willing to forgive sin, and baptize us with the Holy 
Spirit. But he wants men willing to receive it and 
obey his commands. The Jews have not believed 
on him or been willing to receive him yet. " But 
they shall serve the Lord their God and David their 
king, whom I will raise up unto them. Fear not, O 
my servant Jacob, saith the Lord; neither be dis- 
mayed, O Israel ; for lo, I will save thee from afar, and 
thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob 
shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and 
none shall make him afraid." (Jer. 30 : 9, 10.) Israel 
has not returned to the Lord, and he has not raised 
up David their king, and Christ has not been 
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126 CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 

this must be done, for the Lord of hosts has 
spoken it. 

" Jesus said to Peter, If I will that he tarry till I 
come, what is that to thee ? " By this Jesus would 
have us understand that John would die a natural 
death, or that he would live till Christ, the giver of 
life, came to take him from this earthly tabernacle 
to occupy a spiritual body in a future state; other 
passages in the New Testament that speak of the 
coming of Christ can be construed in the same way. 
He came to Saul, and asked him why he persecuted 
him, and he freed Saul from the control of Satan. 
"Be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think 
not, the Son of man cometh." (Matt. 24 : 44.) Our 
death ends our personal interest in this world, or in 
God's promises to us, unless they refer to Christ's 
third coming to raise the dead and make all things 
new. That would divide what is said in the Bible, 
about Christ's coming, in four parts; and if the read- 
ers of the Bible would keep that in mind it would 
help them to understand w r hat coming is spoken of, 
and whether it has or has not been fulfilled. All 
Christ has promised to do on the earth before the 
end comes will be done, and if all the nations of the 
earth should oppose it they would be like the kings 
of Egypt and Babylon; when they are weighed in 
God's balance they will be found wanting, for Christ 
has said: " Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise 
perish." (Luke 13 : 5.) It is wisdom to believe God's 
promises, obey his commands, submit to the dispen- 



CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. \2J 

sations of his Providence, and say, " Thy will be 
done," for " thou doest all things well;" for he does 
not afflict willingly, and those light afflictions will, 
if received in the right spirit " work out for us a far 
more exceeding and eternal weight of glory," that 
will be given to us by Christ, the Judge of all the 
earth, when our work for him is done and our mortal 
life is ended. For his power to save is unbounded; 
our work in his vineyard will soon end, and the re- 
ward is at the end of the race. We may not live on 
the earth to see all this fulfilled, but our descendants 
will see and know it has all been done, and well 
done, and they can tell us all about it in heaven, or 
on a recreated earth. 

Christ at his second coming will not go into Egypt 
to escape from Herod or the kings of the earth, for 
they will put up their swords and cast their crowns 
at his feet, and hail him as " Lord of lords, and King 
of kings." For then he comes to bring peace and 
good-will to men and to all the brute creation, and 
all will say, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do ?" 
For he will be king over all the earth for a thousand 
years, with none to dispute his power. For the devil, 
the enemy of God and man, will be sealed up in the 
bottomless pit or in this earth. This covenant of 
peace will be made with all men who live on the 
earth at that time. And it will be made with the 
evil beasts in the wilderness. " And I will make 
with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the 
evil beasts to cease out of the land; and they shall 



128 Christ's second coming. 

dwell safely in the wilderness and sleep in the 
woods." (Ezek. 34 : 25.) That covenant has never 
been made. And there will be no evil beasts, and 
men will not sleep in the woods in heaven, and they 
will not on a re-created earth. But when the devil 
is sealed up in the earth the lion and the wolf will 
not harm the lamb. " And I will make them and 
the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will 
cause the shower to come down in his season: there 
shall be showers of blessings. And the tree of the 
field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield 
her increase, and they shall dwell safe in their land." 
(Ezek. 34 : 26, 27.) This follows the verse quoted 
above. And it could not be on a renovated earth, 
for on that there will be no more sea. There would 
be no showers to come down. And the trees of the 
field would not yield her fruit, or the earth her in- 
crease. And it could not be in heaven. It will be 
on the earth while the devil is confined in the earth. 
It is the evil spirit who makes the serpent and the 
evil beasts the enemies of man, and it is that spirit 
who makes man his own enemy. That spirit does 
not want men to believe the Bible, or obey the com- 
mands of their Creator. The devil offered Christ the 
kingdoms of this world, and the Jews wanted him 
to be a king. He would not take the sceptre from 
them, but he will take it from his Father, and then 
he will confine the devil who tried to deceive him. 
He will be a king then with no rival or a peer, and 
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this if the devil does not blind them. It will not pay 
men to be blinded by him. The past history of God's 
dealings with men proves this, and proves that the 
evil spirit is the author of deception and all the 
changes men have made in the Word of God. God 
is a God of mercy, and the past proves he is a God 
of justice and judgment. 

The prophets have told us what Christ will do, but 
they have not told us when he will do it. And we 
know he has not done all they have said he would 
do, but he will do it. For Paul, after Christ's first 
coming, has told us, " He shall appear the second 
time without sin unto salvation." (Heb. 9 : 28.) 
And we are told Christ will " cast out the old ser- 
pent, called the devil and Satan, which deceiveth 
the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and 
his angels were cast out with him. Then is come 
salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, 
and the power of his Christ." (Rev. 12 : 9, 10.) He 
has not deprived the devil of his power yet; but we 
are told he will come and confine the devil and his 
angels one thousand years, and then they will be 
loosed for a season, and at the end of that time, 
called " a little season," the devil is to be cast into 
the lake of fire and brimstone for ever and ever. 
(Rev. 20.) This is told us after Christ's first coming. 
And what he did and permitted men to do to him 
then are the hardest things we are asked to believe 
the Creator of the world would do or permit men to 
do to him. We believe Christ appeared to men on 



130 CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. 

the earth from the creation to the days of Abraham. 
And we should believe he will come and confine the 
devil, and bring salvation to all who live on the 
earth while he is confined, for it has all been writ- 
ten by the same prophets. Paul has told us in I Cor. 
15 what Christ will do at his last coming. He does 
not bring salvation then, for he ends the multiplica- 
tion of Adam's race. 

Christ has told us to pray for " Thy kingdom to 
come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." 
(Matt. 6 : 10.) That prayer is for Christ's second 
coming, for he is not a king over all men yet. There 
is a good deal of the devil's will done, and he has 
not given up the kingdom to Christ. And Paul has 
told us, " The God of peace shall bruise Satan under 
our feet shortly." (Rom. 16 : 20.) And Christ has 
not come to the earth yet asa (< God of peace," and 
he has not bruised Satan under our feet. But at his 
second coming to bring salvation to all who live on 
the earth at that time he will be a God of peace, and 
he will bruise Satan under their feet. When he seals 
him up in the bottomless pit in this earth he will be 
under the feet of all men who are then on the earth. 
Then he " will break the bow and the sword and 
the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie 
down safely, and I will say to them which were not 
my people, Thou art my people, and they shall say, 
Thou art my God." (Hos. 2 : 18-23.) This could 
not be done at his last coming, for then all who live 
on the earth must die, and all who are not his people 



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then never will be. I do not understand how the 
devil can make men believe that all unfulfilled 
prophecy can be fulfilled at Christ's last coming, or 
in heaven, or on a renovated earth, for prophecy is 
not given to instruct men after they leave this sinful 
world. 

1. This life, to many, will compare 

With what we call a dream; 
Its sleep, or blindness, hides from them 
The future that could be seen. 

2. For faith in what has been revealed 

From heaven's eternal light, 
Would let us see the future world 
Through this life's darkest night. 

3. Christ's second coming will unfold 

To all who then live on earth, 
What in the thousand years will be; 

What Christ's birth and death are worth. 

4. Then Satan will be loosed again 

From his prison, to go free 
To deceive our race for ages, 
Before the end will be. 

5. Then the old serpent and his work 

Will forever be confined; 

If we believe what is revealed 

This could not be denied. 



CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 



The third coming of Christ to be the lion 

OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH will be to judge the world 
at the last resurrection, to confine death, the devil 
and all his works, in a u lake of fire forever." This 
is called the second coming of Christ, WHICH IS A 
MISTAKE, and it has blinded the Gentile Churches 
so they do not believe what is said about his SECOND 
COMING, to fulfill prophecy he could not fulfill at 
this coming ; and they have misunderstood what is 
meant by the first resurrection " of them who were 
beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the Word 
of God, and they lived and reigned with Christ a 
thousand years." (Rev. 20 : 4.) If men have taught 
us erroneously to mix the second and third coming 
of Christ together, it is our duty to separate them, 
for all who have been put to death for believing God's 
Word will reign with Christ forever in heaven. 

The prophets are not referring to that, for they 
speak of a reign with Christ for a thousand years on 
the earth. They come from heaven to the earth, are 
raised from the dead, and Christ must come with 
them, or they could not reign with him. And the 
Prophet tells us at that time an angel will confine 

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Christ's third coming. 133 

the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, a thou- 
sand years. This is not forever, and is a work done 
for the race of Adam, who live on the earth at that 
time. And Christ will bring a few from heaven to 
reign with him, or help him rule over the nations of 
the earth, while the devil is confined for a thousand 
years. And then the devil is loosed from his prison 
to deceive the nations of the earth. The above shows 
he could not have deceived them in the thousand 
years he had been confined ; and at Christ's last 
coming in judgment the devil is to be confined for- 
ever. We learn from this that Christ did not do all 
he has promised to do at his first and second coming, 
and all prophecy must be fulfilled. So let us see 
what the prophets say about Christ's third or last 
coming in the history of Adam's race, while they 
live in a human body on this earth before it is re- 
created. Those who live on the earth then will or 
" shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of 
heaven, w T ith power and great glory. And he shall 
send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and 
they shall gather together his elect from the four 
winds, from one end of heaven to the other." (Matt. 
24 : 30, 31.) " This generation (or the race of Adam) 
shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled. Heav- 
en and earth shall pass away, but my words shall 
not pass away." (Matt. 24 : 34, 35.) The earth and 
the air as it is will pass away or be changed, but it 
will not be consumed, for the earth will stand for- 
ever. Mark, in his Gospel, speaks of this event, and 



134 CHRIST S THIRD COMING. 

uses nearly the same language. That event will be 
the end of Adam's race in a human form, and the end 
of sin on the earth forever. 

We will now look at some things that will come 
to pass before the end comes; and we will see the 
third coming is a long way off if we view time from 
a human standpoint. The reader will remember 
that in referring to the second coming of Christ I 
have briefly referred to what the prophets have told 
us the Lord will do for the Jews "when the times of 
the Gentiles be fulfilled" (Luke. 21 : 24), which is 
to be followed by the second coming of Christ to 
confine the devil, who has and w r ill till that time 
oppose the spread of the true Gospel of Christ, and 
then "The knowledge of the Lord will cover the 
earth as the waters cover the sea" (Isa. 11 : 9), " and 
one cannot say to the other, Know the Lord, for all 
shall know him, from the least unto the greatest of 
them, saith the Lord." (Jer. 31 : 34.) I have quoted 
this before, and I do it again, hoping the reader will 
stop and think what will be done for the human race 
on the earth in that time. Think how men will 
multiply on the earth, and that all the increase in that 
time will be prepared for Christ's kingdom in heaven! 
and the Prophet, referring to this increase, has told 
us, " The number of the children of Israel shall be 
as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured 
nor numbered ; and it shall come to pass that in the 
place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my 
people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the 



CHRIST S THIRD COMING. 135 

sons of the living God." (Hos. 1 : 10.) And in the 
closing chapter of this prophecy he thus writes : " I 
will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, 
for mine anger is turned away from him; I will be as 
the dew unto Israel ; he shall grow as the lily, and 
cast forth his roots as Lebanon ; his branches shall 
spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree, and 
his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his 
shadow shall return; they shall revive as the corn, 
and grow as the vine; the scent thereof shall be 
as the wine of Lebanon." (Hos*. 14 : 4-7.) That 
could not be fulfilled in this dispensation, but it will 
in the next, and the men who live in that time will 
be strangers to the devil and his works. 

Christ has not told us he would leave men, after he 
had subdued the nations of the earth to himself. But 
if he did not leave the earth he would not have told 
us he would descend from heaven with his angels 
and all the saints. And he has told us the " devil 
will be loosed for a season " to deceive the nations 
of the earth. And we learn from this that confine- 
ment will not improve him. And the sinless race 
of Adam, then on the earth, will not be able to re- 
sist him, but they will do some things he tells them 
to do, and in that way become his servants; and as 
one step in sin prepares the way for another, Satan's 
followers will multiply, for it will be then, as it 
is now, easier to persuade men to do wrong than 
it is to do right. Men will make swords and spears, 
and make war on their fellow-men. One large army, 



136 Christ's third coming. 

we are told, will be consumed by fire from heaven. 
This large army had been deceived by Satan, and 
they had come from the four quarters of the earth, 
" to gather them together to battle; the number is 
as the sand of the sea. And they compassed the 
camp of the saints about, and the beloved city, and 
fire came down from God out of heaven and de- 
voured them." (Rev. 20 : 8, 9.) There is no beloved 
city now. This could not be the new Jerusalem on 
a re-created earth. It is the result of the spread 
of sin after the release of Satan out of his prison, 
and before the third coming of Christ. All that is 
said about war, the plague, and the command of the 
Lord, saying, "that all nations must come up to 
Jerusalem and keep the feast of tabernacles, or they 
will be smitten with a plague and have no rain " 
(Zech. 15), will be fulfilled in that period of the 
world's history. 

We have a short account of the fall of man and 
the spread of sin in the world, but it took two thou- 
sand years to prepare them for the flood, And we 
have a short account of the spread of sin after the 
release of the devil, and it may take two thousand 
years for the evil spirits to prepare men for the terrible 
plagues and judgments that John tells us the Lord 
will send on the earth to punish men, before the third 
or final coming of Christ, to deprive the devil of his 
power to deceive men on the earth forever. He will 
make the nations on the re-created earth like the an- 
gels in heaven, and they will not marry or be given 



Christ's third coming. 137 

in marriage, or increase on the earth after the third 
coming of Christ and the last resurrection. And 
all prophecy must be fulfilled then, and if we believe 
half the prophets tell us and refuse to believe the 
other half, what will be thought of us ? We believe 
all they tell us about Christ's first and last coming. 
Why not believe all we are told by them that will 
be done on the earth ? There has been enough ful- 
filled to prove that the author of prophecy knew the 
end from the beginning. All who have the Bible 
should understand and believe what the prophets 
have told us, and not let the evil spirit blind and de- 
ceive them. All men will believe this at Christ's 
second coming, for then he will confine the evil 
spirit. 

At his third coming " The Lord himself shall de- 
scend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of 
the archangel, and with the trump of God; and the 
dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are 
alive and remain shall be caught up together with 
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and 
so shall we ever be with the Lord." (1 Thess. 4 : 16, 
17.) Then Christ will come, and bring all who have 
gone to heaven; and all who live on the earth then, 
if they are his children, will be caught up in the air 
with him. And all who live on the earth at that 
time, and are not Christ's children, will be left on 
the earth, and they will all be with the unrighteous 
dead, who will then be called from their home in the 
earth. For it is written that " The sea gave up the 



138 Christ's third coming, 

dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered 
up the dead which were in them; and they were 
judged every man according to their works. And 
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This 
is the second death. And whosoever was not found 
written in the book of life, was cast into the lake 
of fire." (Rev. 20:13-15.) This refers to the 
general judgment, and the resurrection of the right- 
eous and unrighteous. The dead in Christ will be 
raised first, and will be with Christ in the air around 
the earth. They will witness the resurrection of 
those whose names were not written in the book of 
life. There is nothing said about bringing the lost, 
who are dead, to the earth, or of taking those who 
will be living on the earth at that time, away from 
the earth to meet those who have died, and will then 
be raised from the dead; and they could not be left 
0*1 a re-created earth. " For the fearful and unbeliev- 
ing, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part 
in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: 
which is the second death." (Rev. 21 : 8.) 

Men may refuse to give this and other passages 
of God's Word which tell us the home of the lost is 
a lake of everlasting fire a literal interpretation, and 
justify themselves by saying it is impossible, for the 
lost could not endure it. The result of that change 
is, some men believe there is no future punishment. 
" Behold, I show you a mystery; we shall not all 
sleep (or die), but we shall all be changed, iri a mo- 
ment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; 



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for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be 
raised incorruptible and we shall be changed; for 
this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this 
mortal must put on immortality; then shall be 
brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is 
swallowed up in victory." (1 Cor. 15:51-53.) 
" The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin 
is the law. But thanks be to God which giveth us 
the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Cor. 
15 : 56, 57.) " For as in Adam, all die, even so in 
Christ shall all be made alive. Then cometh the 
end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom 
to God, even the Father; when he shall have put 
down all rule and all authority and power; for he 
must reign till he hath put all enemies under his 
feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is 
death. Else what shall they do which are baptized for 
the dead, if the dead rise not at all ? Why are they 
then baptized for the dead ? " (1 Cor. 15 : 22, 26, 29) 
or "born of the spirit and the water." "And to you 
who are troubled, rest with us when the Lord 
Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty 
angels in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them 
that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of 
our Lord Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with 
everlasting destruction from the presence of the 
Lord, and from the glory of his power." (2 Thess. 
1 : 7-9.) 

This will all be done at Christ's third coming, and 
then he comes to put all his enemies under his feet, 



I40 CHRIST S THIRD COMING. 

or in this earth. For then he comes as " the Lion of 
the tribe of Judah," to tear and rend in pieces all 
that would not be ruled by his law of love and 
mercy. He will execute judgment on the earth 
then, and deprive the devil of his power on the earth 
forever; and Christ will seal him and his up in the 
lake of fire forever. Then all who are not in the 
earth have been changed from a natural to a spirit- 
ual or an incorruptible body; for it is written, after 
"the resurrection they neither marry nor are given 
in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." 
(Matt. 22 : 30.) Christ will not conquer death until 
then or after the resurrection. "When the Son of 
man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels 
with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his 
glory, and before him shall be gathered all nations." 
(Matt. 25 : 31, 32.) Christ is not in the third heaven 
then, for he has come to the earth; his throne is in 
the air; all the race of Adam who will be saved are 
with him, and all who are lost will be on the earth. 
For they will say "to the mountains and rocks, 
Fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sit- 
teth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, 
for the great day of his wrath is come, and who shall 
be able to stand ?" (Rev. 6 : 16, 17.) 

This is all very plain, and we could not change 
the location of his throne from the air, or say all 
those who will be saved will not be with him, or say 
the lost will not go into a lake of fire. The Lord 
has given us this truth to instruct and warn all men. 



CHRIST S THIRD COMING. 141 

If we do not believe this, and tell men not to believe 
it, we are deceiving and not warning the wicked, 
and " their blood will be on our skirts ;" and before 
the end of the world the devil will deceive and make 
men very wicked, for we are told, " There fell upon 
men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about 
the weight of a talent, and men blasphemed God 
because of the plague of the hail; for the plague 
thereof was exceeding great." (Rev. 16 : 20, 21.) 
The devil must have been loosed for a long time, or 
the descendants of men who had lived in the time 
of his confinement, and had witnessed his release 
and the spread of sin, and could see the fruit or re- 
sult of sin, would not have been so wicked. The 
Prophet speaks again. "And the same hour was 
there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the 
city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men 
seven thousand, and the remnant were affrighted 
and gave glory to the God of heaven. And the 
seventh angel sounded, and there were great voices 
in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are 
become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ, 
and he shall reign forever and ever." (Rev. 11 : 13- 
15.) At Christ's second coming he does not come 
to reign forever, for his reign then will be a thousand 
years. The city referred to must be Jerusalem, and 
we learn from this that wicked men will be in that 
city when the end comes; but some in that city will 
give glory to the God of heaven. 

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142 CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 

sent on men before Christ's third coming was in- 
tended to be for their good. But when Christ comes 
finally, we are told: " A fire goeth before him, and 
burneth up his enemies round about. His lightnings 
enlightened the world; the earth saw and trembled. 
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the 
Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth." 
(Psa. 97 : 3-5.) All this will be done at Christ's 
third coming. And we are told he will " break them 
with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces 
like a potter's vessel." (Psa. 2 : 9.) We are told, 
again, that "the King (or Christ) shall find out all 
thine enemies; thy right hand shall find out those 
that hate thee. Thou shalt make them as a fiery 
oven in the time of thine anger: the Lord shall swal- 
low them up (in the earth) in his wrath, and the fire 
shall devour them. Their fruit shalt thou destroy 
from the earth, and their seed from among the chil- 
dren of men." (Psa. 21 : 8-10.) Christ did nothing 
like that at his first coming, and will not at his sec- 
ond coming; but all the above will be done at his 
third coming. And we are told, " The sun shall be 
turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, be- 
fore the great and the terrible day of the Lord come." 
(Joel 2:31.) M And at that time shall Michael stand 
up, the great prince which standeth for the children 
of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble 
such as never was since there was a nation, even to 
that same time: and at that time thy people shall be 
delivered, every one that shall be found written in 



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the book. And many of them that sleep in the 
dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting 
life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 
And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness 
of the firmament, and they that turn many to right- 
eousness as the stars forever and ever." (Dan. 12: 
1-3.) The word "many" must refer to all of 
Adam's race, who will be saved and delivered from 
the power and control of the devil by the Son of God, 
the redeemer of our fallen race. 

The Lord has told us to " Marvel not at this, for the 
hour is coming in the which all that are in their graves 
shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that 
have done good unto the resurrection of life, and 
they that have done evil uuto the resurrection of 
damnation." (John 5 : 28, 29.) This must include all 
the race of Adam who will ever live on the earth; 
some will be saved and some will be lost. And all 
who are saved now will be saved then. That judg- 
ment will not change what has been done. Christ 
has told us, " The field is the world, the good seed 
are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are 
the children of the wicked one. The enemy that 
sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of 
the w T orld. And the Son of man shall send forth 
his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom 
all things that offend, and them which do iniquity. 
And shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there 
shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall 
the righteous shine forth as the sun in the king- 



144 CHRIST S THIRD COMING. 

dom of their Father." (Matt. 13:38-43.) We do 
not treat the Holy Spirit with respect if we do not 
believe what is revealed to us on this subject. And 
Christ at his first coming repeated in plain language 
all that had been said in his Word about the end of 
the world. In speaking of the end of the world w r e 
are told, " The w T orld that then w r as, being over- 
flowed with water, perished" (2 Peter 3:6); that is, 
every living thing that was on the earth called the 
world did perish, except what was saved in the ark 
by the obedience of Noah. " But the heavens and 
the earth which are now, by the same word are kept 
in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judg- 
ment and perdition of ungodly men. The Lord is 
not slack concerning his promise, for one day with 
the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand 
years as one day. But the day of the Lord will 
come as a thief in the night: in the which the heav- 
ens shall pass away with a great noise, and the ele- 
ments shall melt with fervent heat; the earth also, 
and the works that are therein, shall be burned up. 
Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for 
new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteousness." (2 Peter 3 : 7-13.) I do not see 
how we can misunderstand this language, or think 
prophecy could be fulfilled after this change is made 
on the earth, and in the air around it. ■ 

Paul has told us, " As many as have been baptized 
into Christ have put on Christ, and, if ye be Christ's, 
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CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 145 

the promise. " (Gal. 3 : 27-29.) And if we have the 
spirit of Christ we should understand and believe all 
he has revealed to us in his Word. Then all the 
promises the Lord has made to the seed of Abraham, 
in a future state, can be claimed by all who have 
put on Christ, and obey him, " For we must all ap- 
pear before the judgment-seat of Christ : that every 
one may receive the things done, whether it be good 
or bad." (2 Cor. 5 : 10.) All men are judged when 
they die. And all who are saved will be taken by 
angels to heaven. And all who are lost will be left 
with the god of this world. And that separation is 
everlasting, and there will be no change made at the 
end of the world. " And they shall be gathered to- 
gether as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall 
be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall 
they be visited." (Isa. 24 : 22.) And the Lord has 
said, if " they dig into hell thence shall mine hand 
take them." (Amos 9 : 2.) The lost will remain in 
that pit called a prison until the resurrection, and 
then the Lord will visit them, but he will not save 
or redeem them, for he will tell them to depart from 
him into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and 
his angels. The word translated "judgment-seat" 
means only a step or raised platform such as a per- 
son exercising any authority or pronouncing a speech 
might occupy. And Christ will be in the air at that 
time. " For as the lightning that lighteneth out of 
one part under heaven shineth unto the other part 
under heaven, so shall also the Son of man be in his 



146 CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 

day." (Luke 17 : 24.) This refers to his last coming. 
He does not come then in the form he was when he 
was parted from his apostles. He will return in that 
manner at his second coming. It is Antichrist who 
mixes those two comings in one. For Christ brings 
no salvation to men who live on the earth at his last 
coming- " If we know the truth, we should know 
that no LIE is the TRUTH. He that saith, I know 
him, and keepeth not his commandments is a liar, and 
the truth is not in him." (i John 2 14, 21.) Christ was 
in the form of man when he appeared to Abraham; 
then he would have spared Sodom if there had been 
ten righteous men in that city. But his third coming 
will not be in that form. He does not come then to 
rule over men in a corruptible body. 

Daniel's vision refers to his last coming. " I be- 
held till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient 
of days did sit whose garment was white as snow, 
and the hair of his head like the pure wool; his throne 
was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning 
fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from be- 
fore him, thousand thousands ministered unto him, 
and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before 
him; the judgment was set and the books were open- 
ed. I saw, and behold, one like the Son of man came 
with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient 
of days, and they brought him near before him. And 
there was given him dominion and glory and a king- 
dom, that all people, nations, and languages should 
serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, 



CHRIST S THIRD COMING. I47 

which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that 
which shall not be destroyed. But the saints of the 
Most High shall take the kingdom and possess the 
kingdom forever, even forever and ever." (Dan. 7 :g- 
18.) After the third coming of Christ all this will be 
done, and it agrees with what is said in the New Tes- 
tament about Christ's last coming. And after the 
resurrection and the eternal separation of the wicked 
from the righteous, the everlasting confinement of 
the god of this world, the author of all sin, then the 
saints of the Most High will take the kingdoms of 
this world, with Christ for their king, and they will 
possess them forever and ever. 

And again " Understand, O son of man; for at the 
time of the end shall be the vision. Behold, I will 
make thee know what shall be in the last end of the 
indignation, for at the time appointed the end shall 
be." (Dan. 8 : 17-19.) This end is the end of the 
devil's rule on the earth. The end of the multiplica- 
tion of Adam's race. The end of the animal creation, 
and the end of all that is mortal on the earth. The 
end of the world as it is now. This is all very plain; 
and then we are told it will be called " a new heaven 
and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness." 
None of this class of prophecy could refer to Christ's 
second coming to confine the devil for a thousand 
years, and then loose him from his prison to deceive 
the nations of the earth who are then in human form 
on the earth. They will obey the evil spirit and 
make war on their fellow-men when the devil is 



148 CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 

loosed for a season. But at the end, the first Adam 
will be like the second Adam, the Lord from heaven, 
and will be free from the power and control of the 
deviL Christ will free all men for a thousand years 
from the control of the evil spirit, while they are 
mortal and multiply on the earth. And he will free 
them forever on a new earth. 

Christ is the light of the world, and all who reject 
Christ and do not understand his Word are blinded 
by " the god of this world," and are in darkness, 
from which flesh and blood can never deliver them. 
It will take the power of the Holy Spirit, that will 
be given in answer to believing prayer, to free them. 
Preaching the gospel and telling men what the Lord 
had done for them (while the devil is confined) will 
not prevent them from being deceived by him when 
he is loosed from his prison. For John has told us 
that men on the earth will be very wicked when the 
end comes. " By these three was the third part of 
men killed, by the fire and by the smoke and by the 
brimstone which issued out of their mouths; and the 
rest of the men which were not killed by these 
plagues yet repented not of the works of their 
hands, that they should not worship devils." (Rev. 
9 : 18-20.) And John, speaking of the wickedness 
of men before the end of the age, said: " Men were 
scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name 
of God, which hath power over these plagues: and 
they repented not to give him glory: and they gnaw- 
ed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God 



CHRIST^ THIRD COMING. I49 

of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and 
repented not of their deeds." (Rev. 16:9-11.) In 
the ninth chapter of Revelation and the second 
of Joel we have an account of ' ' the angel of the bot- 
tomless pit," who will "come out of the earth with a 
host of evil spirits to torment men five months." 
They are not to kill them, but they w T ill sting and 
torment them. " Their faces were as the faces of 
men; they had hair as the hair of women, and teeth 
as the teeth of lions." All this prophecy will be ful- 
filled after the release of the devil, and before the 
end of the age, or the last coming of Christ. All this 
will be before the time of which John speaks', when 
he saw the " new heaven and new earth, and the new 
Jerusalem, the holy city, coming down from God 
out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her 
husband." It is called " the tabernacle of God with 
men, and he will dwell with them. And after that 
there will be no more death, neither sorrow, nor cry- 
ing, neither shall there be any more pain; for former - 
things are passed away. And he that sat upon the 
throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he 
said unto me, It is done. He that overcometh shall 
inherit all things, and I will be his God, and he shall 
be my son." (Rev. 21 : 1-7.) 

This does not refer to the saints ascending to 
heaven or coming back to the earth, but it is a tem- 
ple and a city created by divine power. And it will 
take the place of the temple and the city that will 
be burned up at the end of the world or age. " And 



150 CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 

he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preach- 
ed unto you, whom the heavens must receive until 
the times of restitution of all things, which God hath 
spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since 
the world began." (Acts 3 : 20, 21.) And God said 
to Abraham, " In thy seed shall all the kindreds of 
the earth be blessed." (Acts 3 : 25.) The Lord has 
fulfilled so many things he has revealed to us by the 
prophets we can give no excuse for refusing to be- 
lieve all prophecy that has not been fulfilled, for it 
will be fulfilled before the end of Adam's race. And 
we are told, " At the end of the world the angels 
shall come forth and sever the wicked from among 
the just, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; 
there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." (Matt. 
13 149, 50.) The Lord could not gather the Jews 
from all countries and plant them in their native 
land after that. And again we are told, " He Com- 
eth with clouds: and every eye shall see him, and 
they also which pierced him, and all kindreds of the 
earth shall wail because of him." (Rev. 1 : 7.) This 
must refer to his last coming, if those who pierced 
him when he was crucified see him and wail because 
of him. Men will not wail to see Christ at his sec- 
ond coming, for he comes then to bring peace and 
good-will to men, and to all that live on the earth 
when he comes; and that peace and good-will to 
men and to the Creator and to all the animal crea- 
tion will continue while the evil spirit is confined. 
Christ did not bring peace and good-will to men 



CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. I 5 I 

at his first coming, and he will not at his third com- 
ing. For the evil spirit will have control of many 
men at his last coming. It may take the devil two 
thousand years from the close of the thousand years 
to the last coming of Christ to bring about the 
change the prophets say there will be in the minds 
of men. Again, the prophet, in speaking of his last 
coming, tells us " Before him shall be gathered all 
nations, and he shall separate them one from an- 
other as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the 
goats. Then shall the King say unto them on his 
right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit 
the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation 
of the world. Then shall he say also unto them on 
the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into ever- 
lasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." 
(Matt. 25 : 34-41.) 

This will be at the last resurrection. The hand 
of mercy is withdrawn, and the judge of all the earth 
has come to separate the tares from the wheat, and 
there will be no appeal from that decision. This 
must include all the race of Adam who have lived 
on the earth, for it will be after the last resurrection, 
and men will not be in a human body living on the 
earth, for they will have a spiritual body that will 
live forever. Ezekiel's prophecy to the dry bones 
must refer to the last resurrection. It could not 
mean the conversion of the Jews from a spiritual 
death in sin to a new life in Christ, for the bones are 
dry, and the Lord puts flesh, sinews, and skin on 



152 Christ's third coming. 

them, and he puts breath in them, and they shall 
live; and these bones are the whole house of Israel, 
and the Lord has brought them up out of their 
graves. (Ezek. 37 : 6—9.) And those who are liv- 
ing then, and not in their graves (if they are Christ's 
children), will be caught up in the air and changed, 
and made like their brethren who have come with 
Christ from heaven. Then, and not till then, could 
the whole house of Israel be present. All the saved 
will be in the air with Christ, and the lost on the 
earth waiting to hear the order to " Depart from me, 
ye cursed, into everlasting fire." 

If we attempt to change the Bible, we do it, as 
Peter did, at the command of Satan. When Christ 
told his disciples that the chief priests and scribes 
would kill him, and he would be raised again the 
third day, Peter said, "Be it far from thee, Lord; 
this shall not be unto thee. But Christ said to Peter, 
Get thee behind me, Satan; thou art an offence unto 
me, for thou savorest not the things that be of God, 
but those that be of men." (Matt. 16:21-24.) And 
Satan controlled Simon Peter when he used the 
sword to defend Christ, " and smote the high priest's 
servant and cut off his ear" (John 18 : 10); and he 
controlled Peter till he denied Christ, and said he 
did not know him. And the high priests and all 
who condemned Christ, the Pharisees and Saddu- 
cees, had a mold in which they molded their relig- 
ious teachers, but it was not the mold that had been 
given to them by the prophets; and we ask, Are our 



CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. I53 

theologians molded in the mold given by the proph- 
ets, if they do not believe what they have told us 
about Satan's home and its location, his confine- 
ment for a thousand years, his release and the 
spread of sin, and all the prophets have told us will 
be done while he is confined; also as to the third 
coming of Christ to raise the dead and re-create the 
world, and free it from sin forever ? Has the Lord 
given us a mold in the Bible in which we could mold 
a teacher for all the religious denominations we have 
in our day ? or has Satan got his theology and the 
Bible mixed in the minds of men ? 

We do not understand why the Jews do not believe 
what the prophets told them about Christ's first com- 
ing; and they do not understand why we do not be- 
lieve what is revealed to us about what will be done 
in what we call his second coming. Satan will help 
men cover up any truth in the Bible that they do 
not want to believe. We should read the Bible and 
want to believe all we find in it, and not be governed 
by what has been handed down to us by the so-called 
" Fathers of the Church." 

The Lord has told us to ask him for wisdom; but 
many think they are wise enough, and have obeyed 
and believed enough to save them. Some of that 
class are like the young man who came to Christ — 
almost in the kingdom ; but they lack one thing, they 
are, like the young man and Ephraim, joined to some 
idol, and they will not give it up; and they would 
marvel if the Lord said to them, " You must ' be born 



1^4 CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 

of water and of the spirit, or you cannot enter into 
the kingdom of God.' " (John 3 : 5.) They are not 
willing to be as a little child and say, " Lord, save, or 
I perish," or, " Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" 
but they are like the high priest when he said, " It is 
expedient for us that one man should die for the 
people." (John 11 : 50.) 

Read what Stephen said to the men who falsely 
accused him, and then stoned him to death for tell- 
ing them what the prophets had said Christ would 
do, and what he had done at his first coming. (Acts 
7.) It is the same spirit that prevents men from un- 
derstanding and believing what the prophets have 
told us he will do at his second coming. It is not a 
vain thing to serve and obey the Lord; and it is not 
a small matter to neglect or refuse to believe and 
obey him. It did not pay Cain when he refused to 
make to the Lord the % right kind of an offering, and 
when the Lord said to him, " If thou doest well, 
shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not 
well, sin lieth at the door." (Gen. 4 : 7.) 

The evil spirit is the author of sin. Cain had 
obeyed that spirit, and was controlled by him, and 
would not do right. It is the same spirit who pre- 
vents men in this day from understanding and be- 
lieving the Bible. Will it pay to be governed by 
that spirit ? It did not pay King Saul to take Sam- 
uel's place and offer a burnt offering (i Sam. 13 : 9), 
or to spare the oxen and the fatlings of Amalek. 
(I Sam. 15:9.) And it did not pay the prophet who 



Christ's third coming. i$$ 

was deceived by a lying prophet, for a lion slew him 
on his way home, (i Kings 13.) And it did not pay 
Moses when he smote the rock to say, " We," refer- 
ring to himself and Aaron. It will pay to keep 
Christ's commands. For we are told, " He that 
saith, I know him, and keepeth not his command- 
ments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him." (i John 
2 14.) And again we are told by Christ, "Whoso- 
ever shall break one of these least commandments, 
and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least 
in the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. 5 : 19.) 

The Jews had been commanded to believe the law 
and the prophets. That included what had been re- 
vealed about Christ's first coming. We are to be 
controlled and judged by the same law. That would 
make it our duty to believe, and teach men to be- 
lieve, all that the prophets have told us will be done 
for our fallen race at Christ's second coming. For 
it is written, " As many as have sinned without law 
shall also perish without law; and as many as have 
sinned in the law shall be judged by the law." (Rom. 
2:12,) We have the law and all the Lord has re- 
vealed to us by the prophets. Do we believe it ? 
Will Christ say to us as he did to his, " Friend, how 
earnest thou in hither, not having a wedding-gar- 
ment ? And he was speechless." Will the king tell 
his "servants to cast us in outer darkness; there 
shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth " ? (Matt. 
22 : 12, 13.) 

It is our duty to search the Scriptures and think over 



I56 CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 

what the Lord has said to us in his Word, and learn 
to believe and obey that word, and then we can have 
his spirit in and around us; and that will be for us a 
wedding-garment, and we will not then be ashamed 
nor speechless when we see the King or the Son of 
God coming. And w T e should remember, " The fire 
shall try every man's w r ork, of what sort it is." (I 
Cor. 3:13.) Christ's works prove his divinity, and 
we must believe he is able and willing to do all he 
has promised to do; and he has at his first coming 
done the most humiliating part of his work. And 
Christ has told us that " Heaven and earth shall pass 
away, but my words shall not pass away." (Matt. 
l 3 : 3 1 -) What does Christ mean by " passing away " ? 
He must mean that the air and the earth, as they are 
now, cursed by sin, will pass away, or be changed 
by fire, but not consumed; for he has told us in his 
Word they are not to pass away. He also told us he 
will make " a new heaven and a new earth." He 
has told us all the race of Adam must die, or pass 
away, but in his Word he has told us they must live 
forever. We believe that Christ will, at his third 
coming, give all the race of Adam who have passed 
away an immortal body that will live forever, and 
they have one in heaven now. Then w T hy not be- 
lieve he will change this corruptible world, and the 
air he has created around it, to a new created matter 
that will remain forever ? That is not as great a 
work as it will be to give an immortal body to all 
who have lived on the earth; and we must admit 



CHRIST S THIRD COMING. I 57 

this, or the kingdom Christ came to establish on the 
earth could not be an everlasting kingdom. And he 
has told us in his Word that is not to pass away, 
the earth and his kingdom are everlasting. Then 
we must not give the words " pass away" a meaning 
we can see Christ has not given it in his Word. 

The history we have of Christ in his Word he has 
proved to be true by his works. And he has told us 
before, "Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one 
tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be 
fulfilled." (Matt. 5:18.) That must include all that 
he has promised to do for men, and all that live on 
the earth while the devil is confined; and all Christ 
has said will be done on the earth after the devil is 
released from his prison; for all that we are told will 
be done before the end of the world in its present 
form must and will be done, for his word is not to 
pass away till all is fulfilled. And Christ has told us 
"He came unto his own, and his own received him 
not. (John I : 11.) The earth is his, and that re- 
ceived him; but men would not. 

John calls Christ "the Word of God," and he has 
said the " Word was with God, and the Word was 
God. All things were made by him, and without 
him was not any thing made that was made. He 
was in the world, and the world was made by him, 
and the world knew him not." (John 1:1, 10.) The 
word "world" refers to men who knew him not. 
" By one man sin entered into the world, and death 
passed upon all men." (Rom. 5 : 12.) And again 



158 CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 

we are told: " God so loved the world that he gave 
his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in 
him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For 
God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the 
world, but that the world through him might be 
saved." (John 3 : 16, 17.) In this he calls men the 
world. And then he has told us, " The worlds were 
framed by the word of God." (Heb. 11 13.) "By 
his Son, by whom also he made the worlds." (Heb. 
1 : 2.) This must refer to the other planets in this 
solar system, worlds that were made by the Son of 
God; and then he tells us, " He laid the foundations 
of the earth that it should not be removed forever." 
(Psa. 104 : 5.) 

What right have men to say the lake of fire in this 
earth, or the foundations of the earth, will be re- 
moved ? How can we prove the souls of the saved 
will be in heaven forever, and the souls of the lost in 
everlasting fire forever, if we say the words " ever- 
lasting " and "forever" do not mean that when it 
refers to this earth ? And the 21st chapter of Rev- 
elation tells us what will be done on a re-created 
earth: all this proves the earth must remain forever. 
For Christ has told us he will " reign over the house 
of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be 
no end." (Luke 1 : 33.) The kingdom and the 
house of Jacob over which he will rule forever will 
be on this earth after the house of Jacob and the 
earth have been re-created. And, if they are like the 
angels in the third heaven now, and will be like them 



CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 159 

after the last resurrection, they can remain on the 
earth or go back to the third heaven, or in all heav- 
ens in this system. 

We are told that some of the prophets have re- 
turned to the earth as angels, and those who are saved 
are taken to heaven by angels; and our friends who 
are in heaven may come to take us to heaven, when 
the time for our departure comes, if we are united to 
Christ by a living faith, and hold out to the end. 
All the prophets have told us what would be done at 
the three comings of Christ; and what they have 
told us would be done at his first and third coming 
is the beginning and end of his work. And what 
they have told us will be done at his second coming 
has not been done, and must be done before his last 
coming. For all who are saved then will reign with 
him forever, and his second coming is for a thousand 
years. 

And to make this plain, I will repeat two verses I 
have quoted in what I have written about Christ's 
second coming: "Behold, I will bring them from 
the north country, and gather them from the coasts 
of the earth, and w T ith them the blind and the lame, 
the woman with child, and her that travaileth with 
child together: a great company shall return thither. 
They shall come with weeping, and with supplica- 
tions will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by 
the rivers of waters in a straight way, wherein they 
shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and 
Ephraim is my first born." (Jere. 31:8, 9.) This 



160 Christ's third coming. 

was written six hundred and six years before Christ, 
and three hundred and ninety-seven years of that 
time the Jews had no prophet. In that time Christ 
was not a father to them, and they were not all his 
children; and at his first coming they refused to be his 
children, and they have refused to believe on him 
from that time to this. They have not come to him 
with weeping and supplications, and Christ has not 
brought them, from all the countries in which he has 
scattered them, to the land he gave to their fathers. 
That land was not in heaven, and it is not in heaven 
yet. But all that the prophets have told us will be 
done for the Jews in that land will be done, for " the 
Lord of hosts hath spoken it," and he changes not. 
And we should not find fault with the Jew T s for not 
believing Christ has come, if we do not believe he 
will come, as he has promised to come; nor believe 
he will do all he has promised to do for the Jews 
and for all who live on the earth at that time; for 
there is more prophecy to prove he will come then 
than there is to prove he has come, and more than 
there is to prove he will come the third time, to raise 
the dead and make all things new. 

We build our church and hope of heaven on what 
has been promised us by Christ. The Jews do and 
have done the same thing. Where should our faith 
in what has been said about Christ begin, and where 
should it end ? The Jews believe all that the proph- 
ets have said about what would be done at Christ's 
second coming; and we believe all that was said 



Christ's third coming. 161 

about his first coming, and all that was done by him 
at that coming. 

And Jesus has said to us, " Be thou faithful unto 
death, and I will give thee a crown of life." (Rev. 
2 : 10.) Christ has set us an example by doing all 
he was to do. And he has told us to preach his 
gospel to every creature, and that includes all the 
prophets have told us, for he has said, " Think not 
that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: 
I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill." (Matt. 5:17.) 
If we do not give all revelation a literal interpreta- 
tion we take from it all the instruction it would give 
to men, and then we destroy it. If our fathers have 
made a mistake when they explained to us the pro- 
phetic part of the Bible, we should correct that mis- 
take. 

It would cost us nothing to believe the Lord will 
do all he has promised to do for the Jews, and 
teach men to believe that class of prophecy. And 
all would do it if it were not for the evil spirit who 
'deceived the Jews. This is an important question 
for the Gentile Church to decide. And we have no 
time to waste in idle meditation; for the fulfillment 
of prophecy, and the amount of wealth the Lord is 
giving the Jews, and their returning to the land the 
Lord has promised to them and their children, prove 
to us that the Lord is blessing them and preparing 
them for his second coming. They left Egypt and 
Babylon rich in this world's goods; and they could 
leave the nations in which they have been scattered 
with great wealth now. 



162 CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 

Christ loved the Jews and wept over them; but he 
could not save them, for they would not believe what 
the prophets said about his first coming. If that was 
the rock which wrecked the Jewish nation, Church, 
and priesthood, is it safe for us to tell our children to 
run our Church against what is said about his second 
coming ? Will the Holy Spirit give us any more light 
on this subject if we refuse to believe what the proph- 
ets (who told us about Christ's first coming) have 
said to us about his second coming ? What will be 
the result ? From a human stand-point, how will the 
members of our churches to-day compare with the 
Pharisees in the days of Christ ? They believed 
Christ would come, and they believed in the resur- 
rection of the dead: We believe he has come, and 
we believe in the resurrection of the dead. And 
Christ has told us, " Except a man be born of water 
and of the spirit,he cannot enter the kingdom of God." 
(John 3:5.) The meaning of the word " born " is 
" brought forth." If we have been sprinkled with 
water, have we been brought forth from a watery 
grave ? It would be as useless for me to answer 
that question as it was for Paul to preach to the Jews. 
And again, Christ has told us if we "break one of 
these least commandments, and shall teach men so, 
we shall be called the least in the kingdom of heav- 
en." And, again, he has said that " Except your 
righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the 
scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into 
the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. 5 : 19, 20.) The 



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descendants of those Pharisees, and the Church of 
Rome, claim to be better than we are: we think we 
are better than they. Do we believe more of the 
Bible than they do ? I will leave these questions for 
all who are interested to answer, hoping some may 
be taught to answer the questions in the light of 
revelation, " for what we do we must do quickly, for 
the end will soon come " to us. 

I refer to the two kinds of baptism believed in 
and depended on in our day, to show that men cling 
as firmly to Views they think are right now as the 
Jews did in the days of Christ. We can see where 
the Jews made a mistake better than we can see the 
mistakes we are making. Men may be honest in an 
error, but that will not make it right, and if we refuse 
to obey the commands of Christ, and do not believe 
what he has revealed to us in his Word, we make 
the same kind of mistake as Cain did when he 
changed the offering, and as the Jews did when they 
rejected Christ, and refused to believe what the 
prophets had told them about his first coming. And 
when Stephen proved, by the prophets they pre- 
tended to believe in, that Christ must suffer and do 
w T hat he had done to fulfill prophecy, they stopped 
their ears, and stoned him to death. 

The same evil spirit that concealed truth and pro- 
phecy from the Jews is concealing it from men in 
our day. Men are servants to the master they choose 
to obey. The Lord explained Cain's mistake to him, 
but he did not repent and offer the offering the Lord 



164 Christ's third coming. 

had commanded. Satan appealed to Christ's pride 
and hunger when he commanded him to turn the 
stones into bread. If Christ had obeyed, he would 
have been the devil's servant; for the law which con- 
demned the first Adam would have condemned the 
second Adam; and by that law all men are to be 
judged. The preaching of Christ's gospel has never 
changed the views of the Jews, for the evil spirit has 
made them believe they were right; and there is no 
power in that gospel to change the views of men 
now, if they do not believe it, and are not willing 
to be governed by it. Men are willing to believe 
Christ's promises, and they are willing to receive the 
reward; but they do not want to obey his commands 
if they think something else will do as well. 

We learn from this that, if men do not believe 
what the prophets have told us about the home of 
the lost, the second coming of Christ to confine the 
devil, his release, the spread of sin, Christ's third 
coming to raise the dead and make all things new, 
it is the evil spirit who hides it from them; for he has 
always been working on that line, and he has in all 
ages of the world controlled men to a greater or less 
extent. But when he is confined for a thousand years, 
all on the earth will be free from his power and 
control; and when he is loosed from his prison for a 
season he will deceive men who live on the earth, 
and they will serve and obey him; and the prophets 
have told us what the result of that mistake will be. 
We are told what the evil spirits, who come out of 



CHRIST'S THIRD COMING. 165 

the earth, will do to that class of men: And the 
Lord " commanded them not to hurt the grass of the 
earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but 
only those men which have not the seal of God in 
their foreheads." (Rev. 9 : 4.) There will be men 
living on the earth then who fear and serve the Lord, 
and he will protect them. 

All this must be fulfilled on this earth before the 
third coming of Christ to make all things new, and 
confine the devil and all who are his of the race of 
Adam, with the angels who were driven with him 
from heaven, into the lake of fire in this earth for- 
ever. The prophets have made this very plain, and 
the meaning of the words used will not permit us to 
explain it in any other way; for good and bad men 
live on the earth then, and the devil and his host 
come from the earth to torment the men who do 
not fear the Lord and keep his commandments. 
" By these three was the third part of men killed, by 
the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone 
which issued out of their mouths. " (Rev. 9 : 18.) 

This locates the home of Satan and the lost, and 
teaches us what will be done by them on the earth 
before the end comes; and they are on the earth at 
his last coming, and there is nothing said about tak- 
ing them away then. Why should we think they 
will be taken away from the earth ? Some may think 
this is not to be understood by the meaning of the 
words used. Why not ? We believe and explain all 
the prophets tell us about Christ's first coming, by 



166 Christ's third coming. 

the meaning of the words used, and we understand 
all he has promised to do for us in the same way, and 
all he has told us to do for him, and then refuse to 
believe what is said about his second coming, as the 
Jews refuse to believe what is revealed to them 
about his first coming. Christ can include the Gen- 
tiles with the Jews when he says, " Oh ye of little 
faith." We may ask, Why is this ? The best answer 
I can give is, self-interest and the interest the evil 
spirit has in persuading men not to believe the Bible 
as it has been written by the prophets to instruct 
men in all ages. 

Some may think I should not differ so much from 
those who are called the wise men of this age w r hen 
I explain the Bible. Christ and his Apostles had to 
differ from the wise men who lived in that day; and 
the plain truth has never been popular with men. 
And yet the past proves it has paid all men and 
nations to believe and obey all the Lord has revealed 
to them. It never has paid men to believe what 
suits them, and refuse to believe the rest of God's 
truth. Then we should be wise in our day, and, if 
we would have wisdom, we must believe all that has 
been revealed to us by the author of all wisdom. 
Men in all ages of the world have refused to believe 
many things the Lord had revealed to them, and the 
result of that mistake is recorded in the Bible for 
our instruction. Are we profiting by it ? Many who 
live in this day are not, and they can never blame 
the Lord for it. 



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The first promise the Lord made to our fallen race 
was that the seed of woman in the person of Christ 
would " bruise the serpent's head," and the "ser- 
pent shall bruise his heel." (Gen. 3:15.) At Christ's 
first coming the old serpent, or Satan, bruised Christ's 
heel, but Christ did not bruise the serpent's head. 
For before that coming men were saved from the 
power and control of Satan by believing Christ would 
come, and by obeying other commands the Lord 
had given them. When Christ came, he changed the 
promise and told all men they must believe he had 
come, and must obey the commands he gave them, 
or they could not be saved. The old serpent con- 
trolled the Jews, and they would not believe nor obey 
the commands. Then the serpent bruised Christ's 
heel, for his people and kindred refused to believe on 
him, and would not give up the old promises that 
Christ told them he would take from them and give 
them a new covenant. That change proved to be a 
curse and not a blessing to them. Look over the 
history of the Gentile Church for one thousand three 
hundred years from that time; then look at the 
discord and division there has been in the Church of 
Christ from the Reformation to this time, and can we 
say this new dispensation has bruised the old ser- 
pent's head more than the old dispensation did ? 
And if this state of things continue till the end of 
the age, or the third coming of Christ to confine the 
old serpent forever, that bruising of the serpent's 
head will do our race no good; for they will not 



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multiply on the earth after that, and all will be saved 
or lost then, and the devil's work on earth will end 
forever. 

At Christ's SECOND coming he will bruise the old 
serpent's head when he confines him and his "in a 
bottomless pit for a thousand years, so he cannot 
deceive the nations of the earth till the thousand 
years are ended." Then Christ will fulfill that prom- 
ise, and not till then. And all men who live on the 
earth in that time will be saved. Christ is called the 
light of the world. Have we that light if we refuse 
to believe what he has told us about his second 
coming, the confinement of the devil, and Christ's 
peaceful and sinless reign over all the nations of the 
earth, and over all the animal creation for a thousand 
years with those who will have part in the first 
resurrection ? Also the release of the devil and the 
spread of sin before his last coming; and then, if we 
do not believe what he has told us about the home 
of the lost, and its location, and refuse to give a literal 
interpretation to what he has told us about the third 
heaven, called paradise and Christ's kingdom, do we 
believe more prophecy than the Jews do ? 

We accept the sacrifice made by Christ for sin. 
That is the foundation for our hope, and it is a safe 
foundation; but we should, by our faith and works, 
build on it and believe all revelation. Some of our 
theologians tell us they do not know that paradise 
is heaven. They would know it if they would believe 
what is revealed; for Paul has told us he was "caught 



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up to the third heaven, ''and he was then in paradise, 
and Christ called it his kingdom. The variety of 
explanations given to plain statements made in the 
Word of God, that we could understand if we would 
explain them as we do the passages of Scripture we 
believe, proves some must be mistaken. If all who 
think they are on the road to heaven are on the road 
marked out in the Bible, it must be the broad road 
that leads to heaven, and the narrow road that leads 
to hell, and few there be that find it. Very few will 
think they are on the wrong road, but they will be- 
lieve many others are. We have been taught to be- 
lieve that Christ has rejected and scattered the Jews 
because they refused to believe what the prophets 
had told them about Christ's first coming; and the 
prophets tell us that is the reason they have been 
rejected. If the Gentile Church, with all its branches, 
are to be judged by that rule by the Judge who con- 
demned the Jews for not believing his word, will all 
the Gentiles who claim to be Christians receive the 
reward? 

The Holy Spirit will give all Christians wisdom 
enough to answer that question, and to understand 
and believe the Bible, if they want the instruction. 
But many of the Gentile Christians are like the Jews: 
they think they know and believe enough to take 
them to heaven, and they do not WANT to know any 
more. All Christians should free themselves from 
that bondage, for Satan is controlling many bf our 
race in that way. They are almost in the kingdom, 



170 Christ's third coming. 

and he makes them believe they are all right, but 
he knows they are not. The evil spirit has persuaded 
many men to persecute the Church of Christ, and 
made them believe they were doing God's service. 
I think all will admit this; and many should profit by 
it. And in writing this book I think I have done 
what the Lord has called me to do, and think it will 
help all those who want instruction, to understand 
the prophetic part of the Bible, and help them to be- 
lieve what the Lord has revealed to us in his Word. 
I have tried to explain all prophecy in the same way 
we have been taught to explain part of it, by the 
meaning of the words used to instruct men who live 
on the * earth. I have received no new revelation, 
and have only drawn a true picture of what is re- 
vealed to us in the Word of God, by which all men 
must be judged. And if the explanation I have given 
is not a true one in some points, it is better than no 
explanation of that part of the Bible; but I think it 
is true. 

I know of nothing more suitable to close this with 
than the prayer of Jesus, when he said: " I thank 
thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because 
thou hast hid these things from the wise and pru- 
dent, and hast revealed them unto babes." (Matt. 
ii : 25.) And we are to give up our wisdom and 
become as little children, and depend on the wisdom 
the Lord has promised to give us if we want it. 



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1. Men must live in a future state, 

In heaven or eternal woe ; 
And in the end all men must reap 
The crop they in this life did sow. 

2. Men should believe what is revealed, 

For as our faith, our strength shall be: 
We are in bondage here on earth — 
The Lord is pleased to make us free. 

3. Then think of the songs which are sung 

By angels and saints up on high: 
Oh, think of that beautiful home 
That is up in the bright blue sky; 

4. And then think of our Father's love; 

The sacrifice made by his Son; 
Of all he has promised to do; 

Of all that by him has been done. 

5. We should love the Father and Son, 

The Spirit, our Comforter too, 
If we are united with them 

By a work God's spirit will do; 

6. If we love, believe, and obey 

All the Lord has commanded ; 
And that is what all men should do, 
For that God's law has demanded. 

7. Oh, think of the home of the lost, 

It is worse than feeding the swine; 
Far better to feed on the husks 

Than on fire and brimstone to dine. 



172 Christ's third coming. 

8, He spared not the angels who sinned— *- 

Can we ask him to save our race 
If they do not obey his Word ? 

Will the Lord save them by his grace ? 

9. He has told us he never will. 

Believe it or not, as we choose ; 
Then we will have no one to blame 
If Heaven forever we lose. 

10. Then think of the good we could do, 
Of friends we are leading astray; 
Oh, repent and believe his Word, 
And come to the Saviour to-day. 



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1. The earth was made three days before 

God made the moon and sun; 
The day and night did not commence 
Until the sun was done. 

2. The devil makes some men believe 

The earth came from the sun 
All in a melted mass of fire, 
And stopped here on its run. 

3. I do not think they ever tell 

What stopped it in its flight, 
Or keeps it moving around the sun, 
Or how the sun gives light. 

4. If all the planets in second heaven 

Were thrown off from the sun, 
How could God say he made the earth 
Before he made the sun ? 

5. The Father and his only Son 

Were in heaven number three, 
Before earth, sun, and moon were made, 
Or water in the sea; 

6. Before the depths of hell were made, 

Before the devil fell 
From heaven to the earth below, 
Where he at present dwells, 
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174 A REVIEW OF THE SUBJECTS IN VERSE. 

7. One word from God did form earth's walls 

Of rocks and mica stone 
Around the devil's fiery host, 

When driven from heaven, their home. 

8. Attraction would not let the world, 

If melted, leave the sun; 
For water does not leave the earth, 
And it's moving with the sun. 

9. If melted worlds could leave the sun, 

The sun would soon be scattered, 
A million worlds would fly in space; 
All would be torn and tattered. 

10. The law of attraction would be gone, 

If worlds could leave the sun. 
The water then would leave the earth, 
And to the third heaven run. 

11. The Lord is in unbounded space; 

On earth and in the air, 
In the bottomless pit of hell — 
The Lord is everywhere. 

12. Some think the devil is not bound 

To stay in earth and air, 
But think he goes from earth to hell, 
And then roams anywhere. 

13. Some think that heaven and hell are up; 

Or think that they must leave 
This earth and air to find the place 
Called upper and lower Hades, 



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14. That is not in the Word of God; 

The devil tells that lie; 
For heaven is up and hell is down; 
He has no home on high. 

15. The air that's all around the earth 

Is called heaven number one: 
In space called heaven number two 
It's moving around the sun. 

16. For in that heaven number two, 

Earth, sun, and moon do go; 
As the Creator of all things 
Has ordered them, we know. 

17. All second heaven is empty space. 

Then heaven number three; 
All of that heaven is paradise, 
There all God's saints will be. 

18. The heavens above are all for heights, 

Earth beneath is for depths; 
Go to the centre of this earth, 
That is the end of depths. 

19. The saints and the angelic host 

Are all around the earth, 
Watching the devil and all men. 
They know what heaven is worth. 

20. There is joy in heaven when a soul 

From sin has turned away, 
And has become a child of God; 
He protects him every day. 



176 A REVIEW OF THE SUBJECTS IN VERSE. 

21. The heavens above, God made for right; 

The earth beneath, for sin. 
The heavens above are all in sight, 
Earth beneath is unseen. 

22. The word heaven means, to " heave up" 

From this, the earth below; 
And hell means, in a covered place, 
And must be concealed, we know. 

23. The heavens above are all God's throne, 

The devil is god of earth. 
The Lord will come from heaven, his throne, 
To chain the devil in earth. 

24. The devil, then, a thousand years 

Must in earth's prison stay; 
God's Son will rule all nations then, 
And protect them night and day. 

25. All he has promised to the Jews 

Will then by him be done; 
For it was promised to their fathers 
By God, the Father, and his Son. 

26. At the end of the thousand years, 

The devil will be loosed again; 
He will deceive all nations then, 
While this, a sinful world, remains. 

27. And when that sinful age shall end, 

Then the Son of God will come 
To confine the devil forever, 
In earth, his eternal home. 



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28. The hills will be melted like wax; 

But he makes all things new. 
The Lord will come to raise the dead; 
The Gentile and the Jew. 

29. The devil was driven from heaven to earth. 

As lightning he did fall; 
No place, in space called heaven, for him; 
No saving him or his at all. 

30. Hell is a lake of fire in earth; 

It's the prison for the lost. 
God's elect are in heaven above; 
The blood of Christ it cost. 

31. Hell is in a bottomless pit; 

The lower parts of earth, 
In which the souls of all must go 
Who have not the new birth. 

32. Hell is a prison in the earth, 

In which the lost must be; 
The mountains form the prison walls, 
The Lord, he has the key. 

33. That pit God calls outer darkness; 

For in its prison walls 
The sun of heaven never shines, 
To light its gloomy halls. 

34. Stephen, from earth to heaven, saw 

The Son of God on high. 
He did not see the devil there, 
Exalted with him in the sky. 



178 A REVIEW OF THE SUBJECTS IN VERSE. 

35. The rich man from the pit called hell, 

Could see to heaven, too; 
From an opening in the earth, 
Saw Abraham, and Lazarus too. 

36. The power of God could fix a gulf 

Around this part of space 
That would keep the lost from heaven, 
As well as any other place. 

37. If hell is not in earth below, 

How could God say it's down; 
Or fix a gulf they could not pass 
The devil's home around. 

38. This world is called the devil's home; 

Has he a home on high 
To which he sends the souls of those 
Who in his service die ? 

39. How could the devil get them there ? 

Who guides them on the way, 
And keeps them from the saints above, 
If hell is so far away ? 

40. The devil could not leave the earth, 

For he must watch his prey; 
For men would serve the Lord 
If he was gone away. 

41. When Christ and his elect do come, 

From his throne on high, 
To raise the dead, and judge all men, 
Who brings the lost to earth to die ? 



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42. They must be up in space called heaven, 

If not in earth confined, 
And come with Christ and his elect. 
How can that be denied ? 

43. The power of the Son of God 

Will shine from pole to pole; 

Angels and saints with him in air, 

Will the lost on earth control. 

44. If in the pit of hell they dig, 

His hand shall take them out; 
For they must look on him they pierced 
When the Archangel shouts. 

45. Then some are taken up in air, 

And others left on earth. 
The mountains, they will hide them fronVj 
The Lord of heaven and earth. 

46. For then the Lord will seal them up 

In the dark pit called hell; 
Then all who serve the devil here 
Must with him ever dwell. 

47. That is called the second death, 

From which none are redeemed; 
They, with the devil in hades, 
Must ever be concealed. 

48. Some think there is not room in earth, 

For all the lost in time; 
Legion of devils in one man 

Controlled two thousand swine. 



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49. If a man in an iron house 

Should die of suffocation, 
The soul would leave that iron ball 
With no hesitation. 

50. God's chamber is eight thousand miles 

From one side to the other. 
And there is room enough in that; 
He will make no other. 

51. Some think the soul could not endure 

The fire that is in earth; 
The Lord who saved from fire on earth 
Knows what his power is worth. 

52. The Lord has made a fire in earth: 

Since he has made it there, 
Why make another fire in space, 
And send the lost up there ? 

53. Why should we think that hell is up ? 

The Lord says it is down ; 

To leave this earth is going up 

From all the world around. 

54. He could have said there was a hell 

With prison walls around; 
And went on to describe the place, 
And not said it was down. 

55. Is there a pit in heaven above, 

With prison walls around ? 
And in that pit of fire and smoke 
No bottom can be found ? 



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56. If not, there is a pit in earth, 

With fire and smoke below; 
The earth's crust is the prison walls. 
Is there a bottom ? No. 

57. If hell is not in earth below, 

How could we dig in it, 
Go down in it, or how could we 
Ascend out of the pit ? 

58. If hell is up in space called heaven, 

Why does God say it's down ? 
If it is not in earth below, 
No other place is found, 

59. Except the sun and moon and stars, 

In heaven number two; 
But then we must go up to them, 
And that would never do. 

60. If men had told us hell was down 

There could he some mistake; 
The Lord has told it in his Word; 
Can we that underrate ? 

61. The Bible says that heaven is up, 

And down comes to the earth; 
If hell is up in space called heaven, 
What is the Bible worth ? 

62. If a false statement can be found 

In this, the Word of God, 
Can he be just if he applies 
For sin the chastening rod ? 



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63. The bodies of all Pharaoh's host 

Sank in the raging sea; 
Their souls were swallowed by the earth 
And there must ever be. 

64. Nine hundred years from that event, 

Pharaoh was in the earth; 
And he was comforted to know 

The Jews knew what hell was worth. 

65. All go to sheol or the grave; 

There is no knowledge there; 
The mind has left that house of clay, 
Gone ? ask the Bible where. 

66. God's angels carried Lazarus 

To heaven, far away; 
The rich man died, went down in hell; 
For he in earth did stay. 

67. So I with Shakespeare, then, would say: 

" Death is the fatal knell 
That soon will summons all mankind, 
To heaven or to hell.' , 

68. Jonah was swallowed by a fish; 

His soul fainted in him; 
Then to the bottom of the sea 
With the weeds about him. 

69. To the bottom of the mountains, 

Then Jonah's soul did go; 
With the bars of earth about him, 
In hell, eternal woe. 



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70. Then from this earth, called hell's belly, 

To the Lord did Jonah cry; 
For he was in the pit of hell, 
Not in heaven on high. 

71. And the fish cast Jonah's body 

From its mouth on dry land; 
His soul returned to it from hell, 
His body then could stand. 

72. Then Jonah went to Nineveh, 

And he obeyed the Lord; 
He told them, in that great city, 
To repent, or be destroyed. 

73. They believed the words of Jonah, 

The Lord forgave them all: 
Jonah w r as with the Lord displeased, 
Who saved them from the fall. 

74. Paul up to the third heaven went; 

Christ and the thief went there; 
Christ returned, and to Mary said 
His Father was not there. 

75. This would be all right and proper, 

The Lord, the great I AM, 
To be above and all around 
The devil and fallen man. 

76. Yet in spirit he is present 

In all unbounded space, 
Controlling all the host of heaven 
And all our helpless race. 



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yy. The angel comes from heaven to earth 
With orders, and the key 
To open the bottomless pit 
And let its inmates free. 

78. Leader of the fallen angels 

Five months on earth must be, 

To sting and then torment all men 

That Christ has not made free. 

79. Men will seek death; but it will flee 

From them in their distress. 
But they would not repent and seek 
The Lord, so he could bless. 

80. The smoke arose out of the pit, 

Till the air was darkened 
By the smoke of this earth's furnace; 
But men's hearts were hardened. 

81. We cannot from his presence flee 

If we in hell do go; 
For there God's controlling power 
Will keep his bitter foe. 

82. The devil had control of Saul 

And the witch at Endor. 
And he, to let Saul know his fate, 
Told him to go to Endor. 

83. The gods ascending from the earth 

Told her the fate of Saul. 
The devil wanted Said to think, 
That Samuel said it all. 



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84. And on the morrow Saul must go 

In this earth's pit to see 
The devil he had served so well. 
For Saul must be with me. 

85. So said the devil and the witch; 

To-morrow Saul must die, 
And then his soul will be with me 
In hell, and not on high. 

86. Elijah went up to heaven in fire — 

The chariot of the Lord. 
Korah went down alive in the pit. 
He disobeyed God's word. 

87. Korah did not go up to heaven 

From that, the pit of hell; 
Or leave this earth to find a home 
Where devils did not dwell. 

88. For he with all the lost, I think, 

Must with the devil stay, 
In that fire prepared for devils, 
Until the Judgment Day. 

89. Why was the devil driven to earth, 

And left here till this day ? 
Why come and seal him in the pit, 
And not take him away ? 

90. What is this in the Bible for, 

If we are not to know 
Where is and was the devil's home, 
And where he is to go ? 



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91. If he came from heaven to earth, 

And is and has been here, 

And is to be sealed up in earth, 

Need those in heaven fear ? 

92. If the devil and the lost must be 

Taken from this their home, 
Why has not the Word of God 
Told us where they must roam ? 

93. When God speaks of unbounded space 

It's heaven, earth, and hell; 
And if there is another place 
He has not thought to tell. 

94. How could the lost come back to earth 

On the last Judgment Day, 
If hell is up in space, called heaven, 
From earth so far away ? 

95. How could the devil and his host 

Pass Christ's host in the air ? 
Which they must do if not in earth, 
And they are anywhere. 

96. Depart from me, ye cursed ones, 

In everlasting fire; 
Because you would not obey me, 
You can go no higher. 

97. How came you in my Church on earth 

Without my spirit's robe ? 
You must have on that robe of light; 
Or leave my saints' abode. 



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98. Take him and bind him in the grave; 

His hands and feet and all; 
Send his soul in outer darkness 
To weep for sin, the fall. 

99. "The Church on earth is my Son's Bride, 

They are conceived by him 
That enter in my Church above;" 
So says. the great I AM. 

100. If Christ is not your living head, 

The devil is your guide; 
And he will blind your eye of faith, 
Till you in hell will hide. 

101. And when Christ takes you from that pit, 

To judge you for the crime 
Of not believing on his name 
While you were here in time; 

102. And when you see him in his power, 

You will return to hell; 
Then the earth's walls will hide you. 
With him you could not dwell. 

103. If three heavens surround the earth, 

The devil here must stay; 
With the angelic host in heaven, 
He could not get away. 

104. Are we not trifling with our King 

To disbelieve one-third, 
And say we do not understand 
The meaning of his word ? 



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105. When all the words are very plain, 

And we know what they mean; 
And all God's writers do agree, 
As can be plainly seen. 

106. Down in the lower parts of earth, 

With graves around the pit, 
All covered and concealed from men — 
Plain words as he could get. 

107. All we know of heaven or hell, 

We must learn from God's Book; 
And we, on those sacred pages, 
Are commanded to look. 

108. And if we do not understand 

What God has there revealed, 
It is because of unbelief 

Those truths are all concealed. 

109. Then let us on those pages look 

With a believing mind; 
It's the only way to honor 
The Lord who is so kind. 

no. And we must not change the meaning 
Of words that he employs; 
For the devil is the author 
Of all that would destroy 

ill. The meaning of what is revealed 
In this, the Book that's given 
To lead us from the power of sin 
Up to the court of heaven. 



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112. "Thou thunder with a voice like him, 

Hast thou an arm like God ? 
Deck thyself with majesty, 

And look on one that's proud." 

113. Well may the God of heaven be proud, 

For he has none to fear; 
He reigns and rules in heaven and hell, 
No rival or a peer. 

114. How condescending in our God 

To speak to mortal man 
In language so sublime and grand, 
The Lord, the great I AM. 

115. He breathed in man eternal life, 

And that he calls the soul; 
That must forever live in heaven, 
Or be in hell controlled. 

116. If what the Lord has ordered said 

In this, the Word of God, 
Is not the truth, the devil w T ould 
Have told the Son of God, 

1 17. When he was tempting him, that what 

Was written about hell 
Did not describe the place where he 
And his must ever dwell. 

118. The Lord has given us this truth, 

The devil don't find fault; 
We could not change it if we would. 
Then why make the assault ? 



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119. Or say we do not understand 

What all God's writers say, 
About hell and it's location, 
But think it's far away ? 

120. The earth's foundation has been laid 

With God's almighty hand; 
No power will move those giant walls, 
They must forever stand. 

121. God to the raging sea has said, 

" Here thy proud waves must stay." 
The sea obeys the Lord's command, 
And will till Judgment Day. 

122. This world obeys the Word of God ; 

Yields fruit in every clime; 

But man, poor silly man, rebels, 

And will not obey in time. 

123. The good and bad together live, 

Wheat and tares together grow, 
'Till God's appointed reaper comes 

To take the good to heaven, his home. 

124. Then, like the chaff, the bad will burn, 

In earth's eternal fire, 
With all that helped deceive them, 
With the father of a liar. 

125. Devils will tremble and believe 

That he is Lord of all. 
All keees will bow, and tongues confess, 
That he controls them all, 



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126. In heaven, hell, and on the earth, 

And in the raging sea; 
For all that ever lived in time 
Must in his presence be. 

127. The unseen power around the earth 

Must be the power of God; 
With his electric power above, 
None can escape his rod. 

128. Oh hear the sad cry of the lost! 

It comes from a lake of fire; 
Oh repent and believe the truth — 
Do what the Lord doth require. 

129. If David could not trifle with 

The God who made him king; 
But trusted in the arm of man 
That no protection brings. 

130. When David numbered all his men, 

It was a foolish thing; 
The Lord told David he had sinned, 
And offered him three things. 

131. David fell in the hands of God, 

And seventy thousand men 
Fell by the angel's sword of death. 
David repented then. 

132. The God of heaven changes not; 

He will not change forever; 
Then all the Bible is his word, 
And will not change; no, never! 



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133. That lamp of light will guide us 

From this abode of sin, 
Up to heaven and to glory, 
Where we will be like him. 

134. And when we get up to heaven, 

If ordered down to earth, 
If we do not understand him, 
What would he think us worth? 

135. We had ascended from the earth; 

That every one would know; 
And to return, we must come down: 
That would be the way to go. 

136. Leave this earth would mean " go up," 

No other meaning could be found; 
The centre of this earth would mean, 
And must be the end of down. 

137. Some think there is no local hell, 

And not a lake of fire 
That is a prison for the lost, 
But want to look up higher. 

138. Why think there is a local heaven 

Up from the earth in space? 
Because the Bible says there is, 
And then describes the place. 

139. The Bible says there is a hell — ■ 

Locates it in the earth — 
Called a pit without a bottom— 
What is that statement worth? 



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140. The description we have of hell 

Is plainer than that of heaven; 
We can find it in the Bible, 
Given by the God of heaven. 

141. If we believe there is heaven, 

Why not believe in hell? 
If not, the devil and all the lost 
Will go to heaven as well. 

142. If we believe that hell is down, 

And air, called heaven, around it, 
Then why go up through heaven to find 
Hell that's down below it? 

143. Is that believing all we find 

In this, the Word of God ? 
Can we go on and change his Word, 
And then escape his rod? 

144. Faith is the only key that's given 

That opens to the mind 
The meaning of the Word of God — 
The only way we find 

145. To please the God of heaven and earth; 

He will then his Spirit give 
To all who will believe his Word— 
They, with him, can ever live. 

146. Then unbelief will close the eyes 

That faith to us would give; I 

In darkness, not in light, we go; 
While here on earth we live. 



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147. Then how can we love the Author 

Of all that's good and true ? 
He cannot look on unbelief, 
And love and honor you. 

148. And faith will keep us from all harm, 

For then we in Christ can live, 
In him and he will live in us, 
And he will his spirit give. 

149. When the spirit of the Son of God 

From Peter was withdrawn, 
The devil had control of him, 
And he denied the Lord. 

150. If those who read this little book 

Think hell is not in earth; 
Have you the spirit of God's Son ? 
If you have, what is it worth ? 

151. Jesus asked Peter, " Whp am I ? " 

" The Son of God," was his reply. 
That, by flesh, was not revealed to thee; 
But by God's spirit from on high. 

152. Are we all willing to be taught 

By the spirit of God's love, 
Or do we love men's instruction, 
More than God's spirit from above ? 

153. If we to me?t y s traditions cling, 

Not to God's spirit from on high; 
That looks like the devil's work — -' 

To Eve: " Thou shalt not surely die." 



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154. " Search the Scripture," is Christ's command, 

To learn what we must do. 
That word will give eternal life, 
If you do not misconstrue 

155. The meaning of plain words that's used, 

If the devil tells us what 
The Word of God would have us do; 
Obey the devil ! Oh, do not. 

156. Millions of our fallen race to-day, 

Take the devil's explanation 
Of commands the Lord has given. 
It may bring them condemnation. 

157. We should be sure we're right, 

For mistakes are not corrected, 
And in the future world, you know, 
They are sure to be detected. 

158. The command to Cain and Abel 

Was an offering to the Lord. 
-The devil came and said to Cain, 

"Change the offering and God's Word." 

159. Cain did obey the devil then, 

And was then by him controlled, 
Till he his righteous brother slew; 
Then Cain was to the devil sold. 

160. His punishment was not in life; 

But in a future state; 
His punishment he could not bear, 
When the Lord told him his fate. 



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161. Cain with the devil is in earth; 

Will forever be in it; 
With the devil and all the lost 
In a bottomless pit. 

162. Hell and the grave is called a pit, 

And a prison for the soul. 
They are a prison, and conceal 
The body and the soul. 

163. The Hebrew for hell is sheol; 

The same word for the grave. 
Christ's soul was not left here in hell, 
Or his body in the grave. 

164. Then hell must be in earth below, 

And not in heaven above; 

Sin and a lie cannot go there; 

Heaven is truth and love. 

165. The devil has sowed many tares, 

ThatVe growing in the minds of men; 
They believe they are God's children, 
But that they have never been. 

166. They may think they cast out devils, 

In Christ's name do many works: 
Christ's spirit does not do the work; 
In them the evil spirit lurks. 

167. Christ has said he never knew them, 

And tells them they must depart. 
How many are among that number 
Who has not had a new heart ? 



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168. I say you must be born again, 

Of spirit, and the water too — 
Thus saith the Son of God to us — 
If my commands you wish to do. 

169. If the hand of persecution 

Should on the Church be laid, 
How many, like false Peter, would 
Answer the accusing maid. 

170. This book, like Bunyan's, is God's gift 

To this, his Church below, 
And will be yet believed by them 
Who will to heaven go. 

171. Its author is not trained by men, 

In any earthly school, 
To understand theology, 

But trained by God's own rule. 

172. That rule is faith in all we find 

In this, the book of God, 
That tells us how we may escape 
From his correcting rod. 

173. The reformers did a noble work; 

Is that all we can find 
In a book that has an author 
With an eternal mind ? 

174. Look at the fields of earthly fame, 

Of science, and of art; 
They, of the Church of Christ, have got 
About fifty years the start. 



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175. This truth is hid from men that's wise, 

And is revealed to one, 
Whom he has called to do the work 
That he has wanted done. 

176. The wisdom of the Son of God 

Was questioned by wise men; 
And many things that's new and true 
Have been opposed by them. 

177. No new invention has been made, 

Wise men at first receive, 
Until it's all completed, 
They are forced to believe. 

178. What if men, like Saul of Tarsus, 

Who are trained in this age, 
At the feet of our Gamaliel, 
Should all be in a rage, 

179. If the Lord should tell a farmer 

To tell them they could find 
Some truths in the Word of God, 
That have escaped their mind ? 

180. And the minds of the reformers, 

Whose judgment they believe, 
Is good in all theology, 

And that they will receive. 

181. I will say to wordly wise men, 

If you will stop and think, 
There is a power on God's throne, 
His truth will never sink. 



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182. If inventors had been controlled 

By the minds of other men, 
Who did not understand the power 
Of invention and the pen, 

183. Would we have had the use of steam, 

And all the works of art, 
The printing-press and telegraph, 
That gives men a new start ? 

184. Then let Theology improve, 

If in God's Book is found 
Material on which to build, 
That is on solid ground. 

185. The Lord will then endorse the work, 

And none can overthrow; 
For all his word must be fulfilled, 
This he does plainly show. 

186. Must we fear man who has no power 

But to destroy this clay, 
When God has power to cast in hell 
The soul, where it must stay ? 

187. Give me the Bible as it is, 

You may take all the rest; 
For it has God for its author, 
And his Word is the best. 

188. The Bible tells us heaven is up, 

And hell is down in earth; 

If men say hell is up from earth 

What is their story worth ? 



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189. For they have not been up to see, 

Or down in hell, you know; 
And if we leave the Word of God, 
Who knows the way to go ? 

190. And why have hell in space above? 

What reason can they give ? 
Angels go in all space called heaven; 
With them saints will ever live. 

191. God's angels come from the third heaven, 

Through heaven number two; 
To air, called heaven, around the earth 
They came God's will to do. 

192. If men would only stop and think 

Of all God has revealed 
In the Bible and by his Son, 
This truth is not concealed. 

193. All the men who wrote the Bible, 

Would not think hell was down, 
Till God's Holy Spirit told them 
The pit, called hell, was down. 

194. This would not be the devil's work: 

He would not let men know 
That all who serve him here on earth 
Must in it ever go. 

195. If the author of the Bible 

Has ordered it revealed, 
Why should men, who claim to love him, 
Try to keep it concealed ? 



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196. If the spirit that doth lead us 

Is leading us away 
From plain truths that's in the Bible, 
He is leading us astray. 

197. That spirit is the evil one, 

To that spirit we must not go 
To learn the way of truth and right; 
To all truth he is a foe. 

198. That spirit would not let the Jews 

Believe the Son of God; 
That spirit cannot free them from 
The Lord's controlling rod. 

199. If men will not believe this truth 

It will not change the place; 

That for the devil God has made, 

And all who refuse his grace. 

200. Reader, you may my work condemn, 

But do not condemn God's Word, 
Or, when the shades of death draw nigh, 
Your prayer oifear will not be heard. 

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